The large holders, those who own more than ten homes as property, monopolize a total of 2,656 residential properties in Lanzarote. According to the Cadastre data, with figures from 2025, 3.7% of the island's homes are in the hands of large owners.
A handful of people or companies own a good part of the residential properties throughout the island. For example, in Arrecife, the capital of Lanzarote, seventy multi-owners, whether natural or legal persons, distribute among themselves 1,563 properties of this type, 6.5% of the total. The more the number of properties increases, among fewer hands it is distributed.
Owners with more than one hundred homes in Arrecife, Tías and Yaiza.
This distribution varies according to municipalities and by number of properties. For example, considering the legal profile of the owners, twelve private entities own more than a hundred residential properties each in Lanzarote. Thus, nine legal entities share 1,298 residential properties in Tías. Meanwhile, in Yaiza, a single private entity owns 180 residential properties and, in Arrecife, the capital of Lanzarote, a company monopolizes 105 residential properties and also in the capital another entity owns 158.
In the municipality of Tías, a single person owns 29 residential properties; sixteen people hold 217 properties, while 57 companies share another 1,756 and two other unidentified legal entities add 44 more.
In Yaiza, a single person has 36 properties, another two are owners of twenty-two more homes and fifteen companies of 307.
Other municipalities
In the case of Tinajo, a single company has eleven residential properties, and another unidentified legal entity, another eleven.
In the municipality of Haría, four companies hold 51 houses.
In San Bartolomé, four natural persons share 57 houses, two legal entities another 68, and a seventh unidentified personality, twenty-six more.
Finally, in Teguise, two natural persons have 26 properties and eight legal persons, 274.
Last December, the Parliament of the Canary Islands overturned, with the votes of Canarian Coalition, the Popular Party and the parties that support the regional Executive, the register of large holders proposed by the PSOE.
Most housing in the hands of small owners
On the opposite side, most of the owners in the capital own a single property. In total, 14,756 Arrecife residents have a single house in the city, that is to say, 82.7% of the residential properties in the capital belong to small owners. Meanwhile, 5,031 houses in Arrecife (20.9%) belong to 2,051 medium-sized owners, that is to say, those who own between two and five residential properties.
In the case of Tías, the second municipality on the island with the most residential homes, 80.3% of the homes are in the hands of small owners. By municipalities, Teguise and Tinajo are the localities on the island where most homes are in the hands of small owners, 85.7% and 84.8% respectively, belong to people who only own one house in the locality. Followed by San Bartolomé, with 83.7%; Yaiza, with 82.6% and Haría, with 80.5%.
