With 1,500 fewer holiday rentals in Lanzarote, "residential rents continue to rise," denounces ASCAV

In Lanzarote, the number of holiday homes published on platforms went from almost 7,925 units in May 2025 to a total of 6,373 in May 2026, which represents 1,552 fewer (-19.5%), according to a report presented this Tuesday by the Canary Association of Holiday Rentals (ASCAV).

In the whole of Canary Islands, the proportional drop is the same (-19.5%) going from a total of 47,648 in May 2025 to 38,337 in May 2026, which represents a reduction of 9,311 homes, which ASCAV denounces “has not changed the situation of residential rentals”.

The decrease is mainly concentrated after the publication of Law 6/2025 LOSUTV in December 2025: between December 2025 and May 2026, the published offer is reduced by 8,780 homes, in less than six months.

ASCAV considers that said law “expels thousands of families from the tourism business” and is “an extermination of holiday homes in 46 pages of explanatory statement, which does not correspond to reality”.

“Despite the bleeding of holiday homes, residential rentals continue to rise in price,” they denounce from ASCAV.

“It has been decided to put an end at all costs to a lodging sector that represents a supplementary income for thousands of families in the Canary Islands, who pay taxes in the Canary Islands and who bring transversal economic value to many sectors in our destination,” they add.

The amendment of discord

For ASCAV, “the most unusual thing is the evolution of the anti-holiday home Law from December 2025 to the present day”.

“The proliferation of amendments has not stopped since then, but the only one that could save thousands of families is the one articulated by ASG, distancing itself from the Government Group, defending the harmlessness of the classified activity as a transaccional amendment to which PSOE and NC have joined and which VOX supports,” they explain from the Association.

ASCAV denounces that said amendment, number 92, was approved, by majority, in parliamentary commission on July 9, but Coalición Canaria presented four days later “a written statement announcing the dissenting vote, without having duly announced it in the debate of the Commission's Report and out of time, to overturn the amendment already legally approved”.

“What's more, it is presented without any motivation or reasoning, neither formal, legal, nor material, as to why said vote is issued, as required by the rules of the regional Parliament itself,” they explain from ASCAV.