In the last year alone, the average cost of housing in Lanzarote has risen by 13.2% and has exceeded 2,500 euros per square meter for the first time in its history.
A large part of Lanzarote society cannot find housing at affordable prices. That is, apartments, whose costs do not exceed a third of income, and attribute to tourism, at least in part, that prices do not stop rising.
Specifically, 79.4% of the population of Lanzarote believes that tourism causes housing prices on the island to rise, according to the latest Survey of Socioeconomic Habits and Confidence (ECOSOC) published by the Canary Institute of Statistics (ISTAC).
Also, the majority of conejeros (67.4%) believe that tourism increases the cost of living in general. More than 70% in Fuerteventura, Tenerife and La Gomera think so.
Returning to the case of housing in particular, only in Fuerteventura (88.8%) is there a higher percentage than in Lanzarote of people who attribute the rise in prices to tourism.
This is a transversal opinion throughout the archipelago, 76.6% of Canarians think so. The lowest percentage occurs in La Palma (63.4%).
Among the young people of the Canary Islands, between 18 and 24 years old, those who perceive that tourism increases the price of housing, reach almost 90%. Although with little margin of difference, more men (77.6%) than women (75.8%) also see it that way.
