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Bordeaux

Bordeaux has more offices on offer than it lets: 289,500 m² were available within a year at the end of 2025, more than two years of take-up. Its old stone centre also has buildings that are falling apart: the City publishes every safety order it signs, and 119 buildings are closed today by an order forbidding access, use and habitation, most of them in Saint-Michel, the Capucins and the centre. Public bodies are already moving in: the Métropole's developer InCité buys and restores degraded buildings in the historic centre, the City takes over property found vacant and without an owner, and the health-insurance fund's 1960s tower in Grand Parc empties at the end of 2026.
An empty building in Bordeaux with homes, balconies and neighbours drawn onto it in ink
Vacant office space289,500 m²
Empty buildings on record1677 confirmed, 2 likely
On the map800buildings and sites from 11 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: OIEB (Observatoire de l'immobilier d'entreprise bordelais) via a'urba, year 2025 — office space available within one year 289,500 m² (+3%), more than two years of take-up; take-up 122,000 m² (+3%), half of it in Bordeaux and Euratlantique. 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.

There is no open list of empty homes: the national vacant-homes file (LOVAC) is restricted to public authorities.

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

Check any building in Bordeaux: 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
62255 rue Sainte Catherine, Bordeaux
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
2,405 m²14 m1,559 mA fit only
5915-19 Cité Mouneyra, Bordeaux
Distressed or stranded (named) · 2 other sources nearby
2,140 m²12.1 m2,273 mA fit only
5842-43 quai de Paludate, Bordeaux
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
2,706 m²23 m327 mB fit only
589-11 rue Cabanac, Bordeaux
Distressed or stranded (named) · 2 other sources nearby
1,968 m²—294 m—
5352 quai des Chartrons, Bordeaux
Distressed or stranded (named)
3,204 m²9.8 m2,821 mB fit only
5310 rue du Mirail, Bordeaux
Distressed or stranded (named) · 3 other sources nearby
2,484 m²16.5 m1,577 mA fit only
5173 cours Pasteur / 28 place de la Victoire / 17 rue Saincric, Bordeaux
Distressed or stranded (named) · 5 storeys · 1 other source nearby
2,262 m²16.4 m1,582 mA fit only
505-5 bis rue Duffour Dubergier, Bordeaux
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
2,190 m²17.5 m2,057 mA fit only
4418 avenue Marcel Dassault, Bordeaux
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
2,058 m²—2,976 m—
4125 rue Lajaunie, Bordeaux
Distressed or stranded (named)
2,612 m²30.5 m893 mC fit only

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

Saint-Michel, Capucins, Victoire and Sainte-Croix

The densest cluster of buildings under safety orders in the city, inside the historic centre where InCité restores degraded buildings for the Métropole.

  • 113 buildings under a safety order in force, 40 of them closed whole (City acts, May 2020–October 2026)
  • Four of the eight buildings in the 2021 restoration order are here (rue du Hamel, rue des Vignes, rue Camille Sauvageau)

Risk: Small, narrow stone houses in a protected heritage area: works are slow and costly, and owners often sell to investors.

2 sources

Centre: Saint-Pierre, quais and Saint-Seurin

Many safety orders on large stone buildings along the quays and old streets, and the State selling a former office building nearby.

  • 93 buildings under a safety order in force, 40 closed whole, e.g. on quai Richelieu (City acts)
  • A 338 m² former State office building for sale by tender (September 2026)

Risk: The most expensive part of the city; closed buildings are usually repaired and relet rather than sold cheaply.

2 sources

Grand Parc and Chartrons

The CPAM's 1960s tower empties at the end of 2026 and is to become social student homes after a phase of temporary use.

  • About 9,000 m² in the existing tower to be converted, plus 8,700 m² new build
  • Temporary use planned between the move at the end of 2026 and works in early 2028

Risk: The tower already has a developer team; what is open is the temporary use in 2027.

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

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-10-06
    New safety order closing 13 rue Comayrou

    The latest closure: 37 of the buildings closed whole today were closed by orders signed in 2026.

    1 source
  2. 2026-09-08
    CPAM tower in Grand Parc to empty and convert

    The health-insurance fund leaves its 1960s head office at the end of 2026; temporary use, then works from early 2028 for social student homes.

    1 source
  3. 2026-07-01
    Office space available keeps rising

    289,500 m² of offices available within a year at the end of 2025 (+3%), more than two years of take-up.

    1 source
  4. 2026-06-18
    City takes possession of 4 rue Comayrou and 19 rue Filaurie

    An order records the takeover of a vacant property without an owner.

    1 source
  5. 2026-01-30
    Historic-centre restoration order extended

    Bordeaux Métropole extends the 2021 restoration order on eight buildings; one, 99 rue Camille Sauvageau, has been on sale for over a year with no works.

    1 source
  6. 2026
    16,796 private homes empty, 3,779 for two years or more

    Cerema's LOVAC file (tax records) counts 16,796 private homes vacant on 1 January 2025, 3,779 of them for two years or more, against 150,727 private homes. The 2026 edition changed method, so it runs above earlier years; the address-level file goes only to local authorities.

    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 API96Live
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 download11 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Storeys and heights: BD TOPO buildings (IGN)
Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN)
Source : IGN – BD TOPO®. Recorded storeys (nombre_d_etages) where given, else the eaves height (lowest roof above lowest ground).
Open API358 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab)
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 API11Live
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 research3Live
2026-10-09
Facts cited to their publishers
Listed buildings: Mérimée (monuments historiques)
Ministère de la Culture (Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine)
Buildings classés or inscrits as monuments historiques, wholly or in part (the part is named). A monument counts when its point lies in the record’s BD TOPO outline or on its façade (within 3 m).
Open downloadscoringLive
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab)
Year built: IGN BD TOPO buildings
Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN)
The date a building appeared (date_d_apparition, from the land tax files) of the BD TOPO building a record sits in.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab)
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)
Buildings closed by a safety order: access, use and habitation forbidden
Ville de Bordeaux — arrêtés de mise en sécurité and urgent safety orders, published on Bordeaux Métropole's open-data portal
Open API119Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte (Bordeaux Métropole open data)
Buildings under a safety order (part closed, or works ordered)
Ville de Bordeaux — arrêtés de mise en sécurité and urgent safety orders, published on Bordeaux Métropole's open-data portal
Open API155Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte (Bordeaux Métropole open data)
Property the City has taken over as vacant and without an owner
Ville de Bordeaux — arrêtés de prise de possession de biens vacants et sans maître
Open API4Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte (Bordeaux Métropole open data)
Plots where the PLUi requires a share of social homes in any housing scheme
Bordeaux Métropole — PLUi, prescriptions surfaciques (servitudes de mixité sociale)
Open API54Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte (Bordeaux Métropole open data)
Permits turning offices, shops and warehouses into homes (Sitadel, 2013–2026)
SDES (Ministry for Ecological Transition) — Sitadel, list of planning permits creating homes
Open download101Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
Brownfields in the national inventory (Cartofriches)
Cerema — Cartofriches (sites référencés, edition 7 October 2026)
Open download44Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
Service buildings of four storeys or more with no homes (IGN BD TOPO)
IGN – BD TOPO, via the Géoplateforme
Open API212Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
Département de la Gironde: property sales (calls for candidates) — 63 rue Camille Godard
Département de la Gironde
Open download1Live
2026-10-09
not stated — credited to the publisher

What this radar cannot see yet

  • There is no open list of empty homes: the national vacant-homes file (LOVAC) is restricted to public authorities.
  • Safety orders are read from the titles of the City's acts published since May 2020; orders signed before then and still in force are not seen.
  • InCité's list of the buildings it has bought (an annex to its annual report) is not published as data.
  • Bordeaux Métropole's 'Bâtiment public' layer (2,391 footprints in Bordeaux) has no use, owner or occupancy, so it is not drawn.
  • Live State property sales (cessions.immobilier-etat.gouv.fr) refuse automated requests; only sales found in the press are shown.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Bordeaux 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 recordLille, France52empty buildings on recordLyon, France44empty buildings on recordMarne-la-Vallée, France38empty buildings on recordMarseille, France468empty buildings on recordMontpellier, France23empty buildings on recordNantes, France43empty buildings on recordNice, France46empty buildings on recordParis, France54empty buildings on recordStrasbourg, France26empty buildings on recordToulouse, France60empty buildings on recordZaragoza, Spain279empty buildings on record