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Belgrade

Belgrade has no official count of empty or unfinished buildings (RTS, 29 October 2025), and the Republic’s public-property map answers map requests but not data queries. What is public: modern offices are about 5% empty (4.98% of 1.46 million m², Cushman & Wakefield / CBS, Q2 2026), the City sold 22 and 28 business premises at auction in June and July 2026, and a handful of large unfinished or idle buildings in New Belgrade and Dorćol are documented by name. The radar adds the mapped office stock and OpenStreetMap’s abandoned-building tags; nothing here is a vacancy register.
Vacant office space72,559 m²4.98% of the stock stands empty
Empty buildings on record1271 confirmed
On the map948buildings and sites from 5 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: Cushman & Wakefield / CBS International — 4.98% overall vacancy on 1,457,000 m² of modern office stock, Q2 2026 (vacant area = stock × rate). CBRE counts 4.7% on 1,104,000 m² of speculative stock. Map built 2026-10-09.

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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 official register of empty, abandoned or unfinished buildings exists (RTS, 29 Oct 2025). A 2009 research project, “Empty Spaces of Serbia”, found more than 150 sites in Belgrade’s 17 municipalities; its database is not online (Kultura no. 129, 2010).

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0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed

Check any building in Belgrade: 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
53Old thermal power station “Snaga i svetlost”, Dorćol
Public building named vacant · 1 other source nearby
5,388 m²39.2 m2,037 mC fit only
42Foundations of the Museum of the Revolution of the Peoples and Nationalities of Yugoslavia
Stalled or insolvent project · 1 other source nearby
5,011 m²—1,700 m—
30RAD tower (unfinished), Block 20, New Belgrade
Stalled or insolvent project · 10 storeys · 1 other source nearby
36,360 m²78.2 m1,611 mC fit only
23Aqua park (unfinished), Blocks 44–45, New Belgrade
Stalled or insolvent project
——2,216 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

New Belgrade — Block 20 and the Ušće axis

Three large unfinished or ruined projects stand within a few hundred metres of each other beside the Sava Centre and the Ušće: the RAD tower, the Elektrodistribucija building and the Museum of the Revolution’s foundations.

  • RAD tower: 13 floors, work stopped about 1998
  • Elektrodistribucija building: six levels, halted in the early 2000s
  • Museum of the Revolution: basement only, demolition planned

Risk: Split ownership (RAD), a public company that still runs a substation in part of its building, and a State demolition plan for the museum shell make every approach a different negotiation.

2 sources

Dorćol riverside — the old power station

A 1930–32 power station on the Danube bank, a protected monument, sits idle; the Government gave it to the Nikola Tesla Museum in December 2020.

  • Government decision of 24 Dec 2020 to move the Tesla Museum in
  • OpenStreetMap maps the hall as abandoned

Risk: Monument protection and a State decision on the building’s future that has not visibly been carried out.

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
Public owner

City of Belgrade — City Administration

Sells and lets its business premises by public auction. In 2026 it offered 22 premises (5 June) and 28 (18 July; €18,000–388,960, none above 160 m², auction 11 August); in April 2025 it offered 179 for lease at 337–2,253 dinars per m². These are single units, but a co-operative can bid for ground-floor space and ask the City which premises sit in whole buildings it owns.

3 sources
Public owner

Republic Directorate for Property (RDI)

Sells State property, including non-military buildings in Belgrade, in announced rounds; its round of November 2020 offered 45 properties, nearly half in Belgrade. Its register of public-property buildings is published as a map (gis.rdi.gov.rs) — a co-operative can ask the Directorate which of those buildings it holds as unused.

2 sources

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-07-18
    City offers 28 business premises

    Starting prices €18,000–388,960; auction on 11 August; premises in nine cadastral municipalities including Vračar, Savski venac and Zvezdara.

    1 source
  2. 2026-06-05
    City offers 22 shops at auction

    The City announced the public sale of 22 business premises it owns.

    1 source
  3. 2025-10-29
    No official count of abandoned buildings

    RTS reports there is no official figure for abandoned and unfinished buildings in Belgrade; investors have three years to start and five to finish, but few are penalised.

    1 source
  4. 2025-04-26
    City offers 179 premises for lease

    Shops, warehouses and offices at 337–2,253 dinars per m²; applications by 14 May, auction on 16 May 2025.

    1 source
  5. 2020-12-24
    Government gives the power station to the Tesla Museum

    The Government decided that the Nikola Tesla Museum would move into the old Snaga i svetlost power plant.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

13 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 API144Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
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 download238 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
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
2026-10-09
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
2026-10-09
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
2026-10-09
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 API310Live
2026-10-09
Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA)
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
2026-10-09
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
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
EHC research6Live
2026-10-09
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
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Office buildings mapped on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API471Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Brownfield land mapped on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API17Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • No official register of empty, abandoned or unfinished buildings exists (RTS, 29 Oct 2025). A 2009 research project, “Empty Spaces of Serbia”, found more than 150 sites in Belgrade’s 17 municipalities; its database is not online (Kultura no. 129, 2010).
  • The Republic Directorate for Property publishes the footprints of State and public buildings, with the right-holder’s name and area, as an ArcGIS map service (gis.rdi.gov.rs, javni_uvid/agpro_javnasvojinars, layers 5, 6, 12 and 13). Tested on 9 Oct 2026, the layers accept map requests but refuse attribute queries (“operation not supported”), so nothing is drawn; an export from the Directorate would add the best public-ownership layer.
  • The City’s sale and lease notices were read as news reports; the premises’ addresses are in the notices on beograd.rs, which were not parsed, so none of the 2025–26 lots is on the map.
  • No open orthophoto service was reachable: the Republic Geodetic Authority’s hosts (geosrbija.rs, ogc.geosrbija.rs, geoportal.gov.rs) did not answer on 9 Oct 2026. Floor areas come from the Global Building Atlas only.
  • Military complexes and war-damaged buildings (the former General Staff complex among them) are left out by rule, whatever their condition.

Know an empty building we have missed?

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

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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 nearest radars. All 134 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

Brașov, Romania14empty buildings on recordBudapest, Hungary392empty buildings on recordCluj-Napoca, Romania34empty buildings on recordKošice, Slovakia34empty buildings on recordPodgorica, Montenegro9empty buildings on recordPristina, Kosovo10empty buildings on recordSarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina61empty buildings on recordSkopje, North Macedonia41empty buildings on recordSofia, Bulgaria342empty buildings on recordTimișoara, Romania23empty buildings on recordTirana, Albania38empty buildings on recordZagreb, Croatia204empty buildings on record