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Córdoba

Córdoba counted 17,615 empty homes out of 152,718 (11.5%) in the 2021 census, and in the historic centre the local newspaper Cordópolis estimated "several hundred" abandoned buildings and plots in March 2026, citing a 2021 neighbours' inventory of 288 properties and plots (about 90,000 m², one in five ruinous, mostly in the Axerquía) and a 2023 count of 134 empty plots (51,400 m²). Municipal sources told the paper the register of plots and ruinous buildings, which Andalusian law requires, was created years ago but never put into operation and nothing has been auctioned. The radar rests on the cadastre (150 ruins, 255 declined buildings of 300 m² or more, 154 offices) and two State-held properties; the City's open-data portal has no datasets on urbanism or housing.
Vacant office spaceNot yet measured
Empty buildings on record294152 confirmed
On the map1,034buildings and sites from 9 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No broker publishes an office vacancy rate for Córdoba; the cadastre records 154 office buildings of 1,000 m² or more (about 0.84 million m² of gross floor area) but not whether they are let. 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.

The municipal register of plots and ruinous buildings exists on paper but, municipal sources say, was never put into operation; no list is published. A 2017 GIS inventory of plots and ruins for the historic centre was commissioned by the Gerencia's historic-centre office, but nothing says it was published.

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

Check any building in Córdoba: 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
60industrial building, cadastral ref. 4356912UG4945N
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial · 1 storey · 2 other sources nearby
1,800 m²3.4 m1,630 mB fit only
58Campo Santo de los Martires S/N
Public building named vacant · Building
3,380 m²—1,374 m—
51Calles Dolores Ibarruri y Maria la Judia
Public building named vacant · Plot
——962 m—
48Ruin, cadastral ref. 0637208UG4903N
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial
14,801 m²—2,282 m—
48Ruin, cadastral ref. 0637210UG4903N
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial
10,540 m²—2,315 m—
48Ruin, cadastral ref. 4763801UG4946S
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial
3,890 m²—2,572 m—
48Ruin, cadastral ref. 6331301UG3963S
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial
16,298 m²—1,232 m—
44Ruin, cadastral ref. 0637209UG4903N
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial
2,117 m²—2,381 m—
43residential building, cadastral ref. 5252502UG4955S
Distressed or stranded (named) · residential · 3 other sources nearby
2,495 m²33.9 m2,551 mB fit only
40Ruin, cadastral ref. 6445902UG4964N
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial
1,659 m²—3,788 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

Historic centre: Axerquía and Medina

Where the abandoned stock is: the only inventories (2021 and 2023) count hundreds of empty buildings and plots here, including empty houses owned by the City and the Junta on Plaza de San Agustín.

  • 288 abandoned properties and plots over about 90,000 m² in the 2021 inventory, one in five ruinous
  • 134 empty plots (51,400 m²) in the central district in a partial 2023 study: 79 in the Axerquía, 45 in the Medina
  • Convento de Santa Clara: first restoration phase received June 2026, about €2 million planned

Risk: The inventories are neighbours' and academic work, not official; the municipal register has never been used.

3 sources

West industrial belt (Avenida de la Fábrica, Parque Joyero)

The three largest cadastral ruins in the built-up west are old industrial buildings of 1940 side by side (14,801, 10,540 and 2,117 m²).

  • Three adjoining industrial buildings of 1940 recorded as ruins: 14,801, 10,540 and 2,117 m²
  • Another 16,298 m² industrial ruin of 1978 on the Lora del Río road

Risk: Cadastral condition, not vacancy; the buildings may already be demolished or in use as stores, and no source names them.

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

Gerencia Municipal de Urbanismo — Registro Municipal de Solares y Edificaciones Ruinosas (Andalusian forced-sale route)

Andalusia's 2021 land law (art. 134) obliges councils to keep a register of plots and ruinous buildings: after 15 days to hear the owner, a listed owner has one year to start works, after which the council can substitute the owner and hold a forced sale. Córdoba's register exists on paper but, municipal sources say, has never been used and no property has been auctioned. A co-op can ask the Gerencia to register and tender specific buildings from the 2021 neighbours' inventory, and bid as the buyer or substituting agent.

1 source
Public owner

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba and Junta de Andalucía — empty public houses in the historic centre

Two empty houses on Plaza de San Agustín belong to the City and the Junta and have stood semi-ruinous for nearly two decades. A co-op can propose to the two administrations a joint rehabilitation-and-lease scheme for both houses, which would also remove the fire and squatting risk the neighbours report.

1 source

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-06-09
    Convento de Santa Clara: first restoration phase received

    The City received about €480,000 of works on the minaret and the dormitory wing; about €2 million is planned for the whole building (second phase of 18 months), for a brotherhood museum.

    1 source
  2. 2026-03-15
    Newspaper counts "several hundred" abandoned buildings and plots in the historic centre

    Cordópolis found the municipal register never put into operation and no auction ever held; the neighbours' 2021 inventory lists 288 properties and plots.

    1 source
  3. 2021-11
    Census 2021: 17,615 empty homes (11.5%)

    INE counted 121,823 main homes, 13,280 second homes and 17,615 empty homes (152,718 in all) in Córdoba on 1 November 2021; the INE calls a home empty when it has no electricity contract or very low consumption.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

19 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 API179Live
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 download5 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
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 download135 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
Catastro INSPIRE licence 1.0 (free use of transformed information, with attribution)
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
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 API289Live
2026-10-09
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
2026-10-09
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
2026-10-09
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 research2Live
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)
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
2026-10-09
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 API1Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the export — shown with credit to the Portal de la Transparencia (EHC decision, 6 Oct 2026)
Buildings the cadastre records as ruined
Dirección General del Catastro — INSPIRE Buildings (August 2026 release)
Open download150Live
2026-10-09
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 download255Live
2026-10-09
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 download154Live
2026-10-09
Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro)
Heritage at risk in Córdoba — Hispania Nostra's Lista Roja
Hispania Nostra — Lista Roja del Patrimonio
Open download3Live
2026-10-09
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

  • The municipal register of plots and ruinous buildings exists on paper but, municipal sources say, was never put into operation; no list is published. A 2017 GIS inventory of plots and ruins for the historic centre was commissioned by the Gerencia's historic-centre office, but nothing says it was published.
  • The City's open-data portal (opendata.cordoba.es) lists 22 categories with at most two datasets each — none on urbanism, housing or property.
  • The Junta de Andalucía's property inventory (CC BY 4.0, 2nd quarter 2026) lists 295 records in Córdoba with a name, street, nature and general use but no coordinates, area or occupancy, so it is not wired; one entry is called "former ITV station" and gives no status.
  • The State holds two properties in the city in the Hacienda inventory (a 3,380 m² building at Campo Santo de los Mártires and a 1,496 m² plot); two more plots in plan sectors without a street address are not placed. What the building is, and whether it is empty, is not stated.
  • The cadastre records 150 ruins and 255 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 Córdoba 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.

Alicante, Spain396empty buildings on recordAndorra la Vella, Andorra2empty buildings on recordBarcelona, Spain1,239empty buildings on recordBilbao, Spain19empty buildings on recordLas Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain181empty buildings on recordLisbon, Portugal179empty buildings on recordMadrid, Spain358empty buildings on recordMálaga, Spain1,929empty buildings on recordMurcia, Spain502empty buildings on recordPalma, Spain139empty buildings on recordPorto, Portugal414empty buildings on recordSeville, Spain128empty buildings on recordToulouse, France60empty buildings on recordValencia, Spain840empty buildings on recordZaragoza, Spain279empty buildings on record