The vacation rentals in Lanzarote registered in the General Tourism Registry of the Canary Islands have stagnated at 11,077 properties. This is according to data released by the regional government on Canary Islands Open Data. These figures show that new registrations began to halt a week after the entry into force of the new law regulating tourist housing on December 13. Until then, vacation rentals had grown by 113% between June 2023 and December 2025.
Despite the constant growth of homes dedicated to tourist rentals in Lanzarote, the Territorial Planning Area of the Cabildo de Lanzarote has claimed that it has removed 896 listings from the tourist market through its oversight. The data distributed by the island's main institution does not refer to registered homes, which continued to grow between December 2024 and the same month of 2025, but rather to those that are advertised on various portals each monthOf the more than 11,000 registered accommodations in Lanzarote, 7,313 were available for booking last December, a figure that had also been repeated in previous months but fluctuates monthly depending on whether owners put them up for rent or not, according to data from the Canary Islands Institute of Statistics (ISTAC). For example, in November there were 7,154 tourist properties available and last October, 7,578
The decrease announced by the Cabildo of Lanzarote comes from comparing available vacation homes for rent and not those registered, which are many more. Specifically, these advertised homes did decrease by 896 when comparing their progress over a year, going from 8,209 in December 2024 to 7,313 last December.
Is this reduction caused by the oversight of the Cabildo of Lanzarote?
Despite its announcement, sources from the Cabildo of Lanzarote have not been able to confirm to La Voz how many tourist dwellings the island institution has inspected this year, nor how many have left the market due to this oversight. It simply refers to the data on available housing, which has decreased, but registered dwellings have been increasing until a week after the Canary Islands law came into effect. This means that the drop in available housing has not been accompanied by a corresponding decrease in the General Tourist Registry.
This decrease occurs in a context where the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs of the Spanish Government had already taken several steps to curb illegal tourist housing advertisements. For example, at the end of July 2025, Consumer Affairs announced that Airbnb had removed 65,000 unlicensed vacation rentals nationwide and that another 55,000 tourist rentals had been detected that did not comply with the single registry approved at the national level
In September 2025, the Ministry of Housing reported that there were around 869 properties in Yaiza and Tías alone that did not comply with the requirements of the single registry implemented by the Government of Spain. In this case, the national Executive asked the platforms to remove advertisements for 8,698 illegal tourist properties, among which were the 869 advertised in these two municipalities. Despite the removal of thousands of advertisements, in December, Consumer Affairs announced a fine of 64 million euros against Airbnb for advertising illegal vacation rentals.
More than 270 million euros
Over the past year, tourist accommodations generated more than 272.9 million euros on the island of volcanoes, according to ISTAC. Added to this is the fact that the occupancy rate for vacation rentals on the island hovered between 85% and 97% throughout the year. As for available beds, last December Lanzarote had 32,880 beds,
