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Alicante

Alicante counted 25,172 empty homes out of 186,516 (13.5%) in the 2021 census, and asking rents reached about €13.9 per m² a month in the third quarter of 2026. No register of plots or ruins is published, so the radar combines the cadastre (341 ruins, 85 declined buildings of 300 m² or more, 147 offices of 1,000 m² or more), four State-held properties and the Generalitat's property register — which lists two patrimonial buildings and nine plots, several for the public housing stock. The named cases are a former private clinic closed since 2004 (13,887 m², now sold for demolition) and a municipal flour mill (1,622 m², bricked up, use undecided) that the City is offering to partners.
Vacant office spaceNot yet measured
Empty buildings on record396346 confirmed
On the map866buildings and sites from 12 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No broker publishes an office vacancy rate for Alicante; the cadastre records 147 office buildings of 1,000 m² or more (about 0.94 million m² of gross floor area) but not whether they are let. Map built 2026-10-10.

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The map

Every building a record says stands empty, one point per building: filter by type, size and how sure the evidence is, and open one to see who says so. “Opportunities” switches to the co-op lens: public land, conversion potential and projects already under way, every source as its own layer.

No register of plots to be built, of buildings to be rehabilitated or of empty municipal premises is published; the Ayuntamiento's map portal (mapas.alicante.es) offers the street guide, accessible routes, environment, noise, the 1987 plan, school zones — no property or condition layer — and datosabiertos.alicante.es did not answer on 9 October 2026.

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Check any building in Alicante: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?

Where to look first

Buildings with evidence that they stand empty — a second source agrees, a public record names them, or we have checked them — ranked by a score you can read: co-op scale, daylight depth, a station nearby, a zone that allows homes, affordable land and an open route in. Checked buildings carry their result; nobody has visited them on site yet. Leerstandsmelder reports join the list when they sit in a large non-residential building and a second source agrees.

PriorityBuildingFloor areaDepthStationConversion checkActions
88Torre Generalitat (antes Referencia a Edificio Prop)
On public land · Administrativo · 15 storeys · 1 other source nearby
5,041 m²13.9 m128 mA fit only
71Dirección Territorial de Sanidad y Centro de Salud Publica
On public land · Administrativo · 4 storeys · 1 other source nearby
3,862 m²17.6 m544 mA fit only
63Estacion Alicante . Linea Alicante - Denia
On public land · Servicios ferroviarios (estaciones,lineas) · 3 other sources nearby
16,459 m²—465 m—
61Edificio de Correos de Alicante Sede Institucional Conselleria Innovación, Industria, Comercio y Turismo
On public land · Administrativo · 3 storeys · 1 other source nearby
3,254 m²23.7 m563 mA fit only
59residential building, cadastral ref. 3094818YH2439C
Distressed or stranded (named) · residential · 2 storeys · 1 other source nearby
2,046 m²9.5 m2,662 mA fit only
58Centro de Especialidades Santa Faz Direccion Area 17 y 18, Direccion Territorial del Insalud
On public land · Sanitario · 6 storeys · 1 other source nearby
8,063 m²34.6 m377 mA fit only
58Teatro Principal de Alicante 29,85% de Propiedad
On public land · Cultural · 1 other source nearby
4,287 m²26.2 m213 mA fit only
58Ruin, cadastral ref. 9875912YH1497F
Distressed or stranded (named) · 3 storeys
2,692 m²19.1 m132 mA fit only
48Parcela P-10 («antiguas Naves de Amaro») y Calle de Acceso.
On public land · Trabajo, empleo y formación · 3 other sources nearby
3,717 m²—1,049 m—
47Ruin, cadastral ref. 1389507YH2418G
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial
2,395 m²—1,166 m—

Districts where conversion makes sense

Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.

A hand outlining a neighbourhood on a city map, with small houses drawn inside

Benalúa Sur (the flour mills)

The City owns the former Cloquell mill (1,622 m²), bricked up and without a use, and has bought the neighbouring mill buildings under a 2021 agreement; it is looking for partners.

  • Municipal property since July 2023; doors and windows bricked up
  • About 5,000 m² of built floor space acquired in total (2021 agreement); first works possible before the end of 2027

Risk: The only use set is a public facility; the plan change is still in a 45-day consultation and housing is not envisaged.

2 sources

Playa de San Juan

The largest named empty building in the radar's Alicante data: the Mare Nostrum clinic, shut since 2004, on a block between Calle de la Dorada and Calle del Coral.

  • 13,887 m² of floor space, empty for nearly 20 years
  • Care-home project of €12.2 million filed with the City (July 2024)

Risk: A private owner has filed a demolition-and-build scheme for a care home.

1 source

Generalitat housing land (Babel, San Blas, Garbinet, Benisaudet, Las Atalayas)

The Generalitat's register lists nine plots in Alicante held as patrimonial land or for the public housing stock, including an unbuilt Babel plot of "MOPU homes not built" and the 13,820 m² "Solar Circos" in San Blas.

  • 9 plot records in the register, updated 1 October 2026
  • Las Atalayas estate: 668,527 m²; San Blas "Solar Circos": 13,820 m²; Babel III-6: 5,420 m²

Risk: Plots, not buildings, held by the Generalitat's housing entity; they may already be earmarked for its own schemes.

1 source

Owners and routes in

Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.

A door key on a doorstep with a drawn path leading to an open door
City agency

Ayuntamiento de Alicante — municipal buildings (the Cloquell flour mill)

The City is looking for public and private partners (foundations, universities, public bodies) for a cultural, training or innovation use of the Cloquell building, through a public-private agreement or a concession open to competing proposals; the plan change goes to a 45-day consultation and the plenary. A co-op can propose a community-run work-space or training programme and join the consultation; housing is not the planned use.

1 source
Public owner

Generalitat Valenciana — property for the public housing stock (Entidad Valenciana de Vivienda y Suelo)

The Generalitat's open register lists nine plots in Alicante held as patrimonial land or for the public housing stock, with cadastral references, areas and the owning body (the Valencian housing and land entity or the Directorate-General of Patrimony). A co-op can ask the entity which of them are not earmarked and propose a cession-of-use or surface-right scheme.

1 source

Signals to watch

Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.

  1. 2026-09
    Asking rents about €13.9 per m² a month

    Idealista asking rents for Alicante averaged €13.3 in the first quarter of 2026, €13.7 in the second and €13.9 in the third (OCU analysis).

    1 source
  2. 2026-07-15
    Municipal flour mill offered to partners

    The City approved the preliminary plan change on 14 July 2026, bricked up the Cloquell building and said it is open to public-private partners; use still undecided.

    1 source
  3. 2024-07-09
    Mare Nostrum clinic sold for demolition

    Empty since 2004, the clinic block is to be demolished for a 13,887 m² care complex (€12.2 million).

    1 source
  4. 2021-11
    Census 2021: 25,172 empty homes (13.5%)

    INE counted 132,637 main homes, 28,707 second homes and 25,172 empty homes (186,516 in all) in Alicante on 1 November 2021; the INE calls a home empty when it has no electricity contract or very low consumption.

    1 source
  5. 2021-05-14
    City signs the purchase of the flour-mill buildings

    The Bufort and Cloquell mill buildings pass to the City under an urban agreement (about 5,000 m² of built floor space); demolition ruled out for their architectural value.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

22 sources connected, 1 waiting for access. We only use data we may lawfully reuse; where a publisher blocks automated access we do not work around it — a person downloads it, or we ask for permission.

Show every source, its licence and when we last read it
SourceAccessRecordsStatusLicence
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API61Live
2026-10-10
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-10
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Building heights: GlobalBuildingAtlas (TU Munich)
Zhu, X. X., Chen, S., Zhang, F., Shi, Y., Wang, Y. (2025), Technical University of Munich
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models. Earth System Science Data 17(12), 6647–6668, doi:10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025. Read from the Parquet copy on Source Cooperative. Satellite-derived heights (typically 1.5–3 m error in Europe), turned into storeys with storey heights fitted on Berlin; used only where no register or official 3D model sizes the building.
Open download2 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-10
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Official floor areas and uses: Catastro INSPIRE buildings
Dirección General del Catastro (Ministerio de Hacienda)
Fuente: Dirección General del Catastro. The official gross floor area (officialArea, grossFloorArea) and current use of the cadastral building a record sits in — everything built on that parcel.
Open download20 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-10
Catastro INSPIRE licence 1.0 (free use of transformed information, with attribution)
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-10
EEA standard re-use policy (attribution)
Leerstandsmelder.de — public reports of empty buildings
Leerstandsmelder (Gängeviertel e.V., Hamburg)
Shown while we ask Leerstandsmelder for permission. Reports since 2016 only, with the address, the month reported and a link to each entry; not checked by EHC. Each point says when a report has since been marked demolished, lived in, in interim use or rebuilt on Leerstandsmelder, and the owner type the reporter gave (private owners are never named).
Asking for permission0Pending
2026-10-10
Credited to Leerstandsmelder.de; asking for permission
Open-ended property funds: buildings they report partly empty
Open-ended real-estate funds (each point names its fund and report)
German and Austrian open-ended public property funds must list every property with its vacancy (or letting) rate in their annual and half-year reports. scripts/reuse/import-fund-reports.ts reads those lists; properties at 10 % vacancy or more are shown, those at 25 % or more count as evidence.
Open download0Live
2026-10-10
Published fund report (KAGB / KARBV property list), cited per point
Co-working spaces, department stores, banks, hotels and cinemas listed as permanently closed
Overture Maps Foundation (closure data: BrightQuery company records)
Places with operating_status "permanently_closed" in the monthly Overture release, read by scripts/reuse/import-overture-closures.ts and matched to the building they sit in. A closed business is usually one unit; names are shown only for companies, never for sole traders.
Open download0Live
2026-10-10
CDLA Permissive 2.0 (Overture Maps Foundation)
Land without current use and stalled construction, mapped from satellite imagery (Copernicus Urban Atlas 2006–2018)
European Environment Agency — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Urban Atlas class 13400 (brownfields, demolition sites and gaps in the built-up area, 0.25 ha and up) compared across the 2006, 2012 and 2018 editions, so each plot says how long it has stood unused; plus construction sites (13300) already under way in 2012, and 2012 construction sites left unused by 2018. Read from the EEA's open ArcGIS services, the same way in every radar city. The 2021 edition (Copernicus Data Space) drops plots built on since 2018 where scripts/reuse/import-urban-atlas-2021.ts has been run. Points are context, never evidence of vacancy.
Open API146Live
2026-10-10
Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA)
Office buildings of 1,000 m² or more, with depth and storeys (EUBUCCO)
EUBUCCO (TU Berlin / ai4up), from the Spanish cadastre, Regione Lombardia’s building database and OpenStreetMap
EUBUCCO harmonises Europe's building footprints with their use, height and age. Only buildings whose source names the use are kept — the cadastre's office class in Barcelona and Madrid, Lombardy's "commerciale" in Milan, building=office in OpenStreetMap for Dublin and Lisbon — never EUBUCCO's machine-learning guesses. The footprint gives the plan depth, so the conversion score treats them like the German cadastre's offices (scripts/reuse/import-eubucco.ts → src/scripts/data/reuse/eubucco/, ODbL).
Open download0Live
2026-10-10
ODbL 1.0 (EUBUCCO v0.2; Dirección General del Catastro, Regione Lombardia, © OpenStreetMap contributors)
Stalled construction and buildings held by insolvent developers
EHC research (dated press and court sources per point)
Signa, Adler/Consus and other developer insolvencies since 2022 and stalled sites, each with its latest dated status (src/scripts/data/reuse/stalled-projects.json; news leads from scripts/reuse/mine-news.ts are reviewed before they join).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-10
Cited publisher per point
Church buildings the dioceses and regional churches plan to give up
Catholic dioceses and Protestant regional churches (their building plans), via EHC research
Buildings a church body’s published building plan or recent reporting names as to be given up, without church funding, for sale or lease, or profaned (src/scripts/data/reuse/church-plans.json and brussels-churches.json).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-10
Cited publisher per point
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
EHC research2Live
2026-10-10
Facts cited to their publishers
Year built and listing: OpenStreetMap building tags
OpenStreetMap contributors
start_date / construction_date and heritage / listed_status of the OpenStreetMap outline a record is matched to, where no register answers. Read with the outline match, not a separate query.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-10
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Central-state buildings held unassigned (Patrimonio del Estado)
Gobierno de España — Portal de la Transparencia, Ministerio de Hacienda inventory of state property (CIBI), exported 9 Oct 2026
Open API1Live
2026-10-10
No licence stated on the export — shown with credit to the Portal de la Transparencia (EHC decision, 6 Oct 2026)
Central-state plots held unassigned (Patrimonio del Estado)
Gobierno de España — Portal de la Transparencia, Ministerio de Hacienda inventory of state property (CIBI), exported 9 Oct 2026
Open API3Live
2026-10-10
No licence stated on the export — shown with credit to the Portal de la Transparencia (EHC decision, 6 Oct 2026)
Generalitat buildings held as patrimonial property (not assigned to a public service), 300 m² or more
Generalitat Valenciana — Dirección General de Sector Público y Patrimonio (Conselleria de Hacienda), via the Institut Cartogràfic Valencià
Open API2Live
2026-10-10
CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution, as listed on dadesobertes.gva.es)
Generalitat plots held as patrimonial land or for the public housing stock
Generalitat Valenciana — Dirección General de Sector Público y Patrimonio (Conselleria de Hacienda), via the Institut Cartogràfic Valencià
Open API9Live
2026-10-10
CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution, as listed on dadesobertes.gva.es)
Generalitat buildings of 2,000 m² or more in public use
Generalitat Valenciana — Dirección General de Sector Público y Patrimonio (Conselleria de Hacienda), via the Institut Cartogràfic Valencià
Open API67Live
2026-10-10
CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution, as listed on dadesobertes.gva.es)
Buildings the cadastre records as ruined
Dirección General del Catastro — INSPIRE Buildings (August 2026 release)
Open download341Live
2026-10-10
Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro)
Buildings the cadastre records as declined (300 m² or more)
Dirección General del Catastro — INSPIRE Buildings (August 2026 release)
Open download85Live
2026-10-10
Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro)
Office buildings of 1,000 m² or more (cadastre main use "office")
Dirección General del Catastro — INSPIRE Buildings (August 2026 release)
Open download147Live
2026-10-10
Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro)
Heritage at risk in Alicante — Hispania Nostra's Lista Roja
Hispania Nostra — Lista Roja del Patrimonio
Open download2Live
2026-10-10
All rights reserved (Hispania Nostra, aviso legal): only the entry's name, the street, the date added and a link to its card are kept — no descriptions or photos; credited "Hispania Nostra — Lista Roja"

What this radar cannot see yet

  • No register of plots to be built, of buildings to be rehabilitated or of empty municipal premises is published; the Ayuntamiento's map portal (mapas.alicante.es) offers the street guide, accessible routes, environment, noise, the 1987 plan, school zones — no property or condition layer — and datosabiertos.alicante.es did not answer on 9 October 2026.
  • The Generalitat's register covers its own property (2 patrimonial buildings, 9 plots, 67 buildings of 2,000 m² or more in public use) but not the Diputación's, the State's other agencies' or the port authority's.
  • The State holds four properties in the city (one building, three plots) in the Hacienda inventory, placed on their streets (the Serra Grossa plot by a hand-set street hint): points sit on the street, not the plot.
  • The cadastre records 341 ruins and 85 declined buildings of 300 m² or more: condition, not vacancy.
  • Empty homes are counted by municipality only (INE, 2021); there is no address-level layer.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Alicante that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

A phone held up to photograph an empty shopfront, with a map pin drawn above it

We publish the address, the kind of building and your description once we have checked it — never your email. Please do not name the people who own or live in a building.

Radars nearby

The other radars in the same country and the nearest beyond. All 134 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

Andorra la Vella, Andorra2empty buildings on recordBarcelona, Spain1,239empty buildings on recordBilbao, Spain19empty buildings on recordBordeaux, France167empty buildings on recordCórdoba, Spain294empty buildings on recordLas Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain181empty buildings on recordMadrid, Spain358empty buildings on recordMálaga, Spain1,929empty buildings on recordMontpellier, France23empty buildings on recordMurcia, Spain502empty buildings on recordPalma, Spain139empty buildings on recordSeville, Spain128empty buildings on recordToulouse, France60empty buildings on recordValencia, Spain840empty buildings on recordZaragoza, Spain279empty buildings on record