Office figures: No open city-wide office vacancy figure was read: the NVM regional report could not be opened and the broker reports are paywalled. The BAG register lists 186 office-only buildings with a unit of 1,000 m² or more inside the municipality (9 Oct 2026 test), which says what stands, not what is empty. Map built 2026-10-09.
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.
Eindhoven publishes no list of empty buildings or disposal list; its open data portal (138 datasets, 9 Oct 2026) has no vacancy or property layer, and the City's page on buying or renting a building answers automated requests with HTTP 403 (not crossed).
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Eindhoven: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
Two large former offices around the station have just changed hands to public or social owners.
Risk: Both are already earmarked: Karelspoort for asylum places and social housing (Trudo), Kennedyplein 300 for whatever the City decides.
Churches and parish halls that the parish no longer needs: Theresiakerk, Jacobuskerk and Pastoor van Arskerk.
Risk: The parish and care providers have mostly reached for them already; the Pastoor van Arskerk became 40 homes for older people in June 2026.
The former municipal administration office at PC Hooftlaan shows the path from City office to ~120 flats; the permits register shows the cluster of small conversions along Stratumsedijk.
Risk: Conversions here are mostly small office floors or villas, not whole buildings.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
The City hands vacant property it owns to a vacancy manager for temporary use until it is sold or redeveloped (VPS Nederland since a 2018 tender; the current contract was not read). Ask the Vastgoed department for the current vacant list and for the plan for Kennedyplein 300.
The State sells surplus buildings on Biedboek, and publishes a negotiated sale to a named buyer with a 20-working-day window in which others can say they qualify (as with Karelspoort); watch the list and write in if a plan fits the State's criteria.
A €60.6 million fund for housing co-operatives opening for applications by the end of 2026, for projects of roughly 12–100 homes for middle incomes; it needs a location and the municipality's consent.
Eindhoven's Catholic parishes are closing churches in turn (the diocese announced in 2011 that ten of nineteen would close); the Theresiakerk still lacks a user.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
The City's page schedules the council's decision on the zoning change for the Karelspoort tower for 6 October 2026, with conversion in 2027–28.
The Rijksvastgoedbedrijf records the sale of the office complex (18,089 m²) after no other buyer came forward in March 2025.
Aberdeen sold Kennedyplein 300 next to Eindhoven Central to the municipality; VGZ left in March 2025.
The City leases a vacant office at Cederlaan/Beukenlaan to convert into 105 self-contained studios for up to 265 Ukrainian refugees.
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.
| Source | Access | Records | Status | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | 8 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors) |
| Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap) OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | scoring | Live 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 download | 1 buildings sized | Live 2026-10-09 | CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL |
| Heights and floor areas: 3DBAG and the BAG register 3DBAG (TU Delft 3D geoinformation, 3DGI); Kadaster (BAG via PDOK) © 3DBAG by tudelft3d and 3DGI. The usable floor area of the units in each building (BAG verblijfsobjecten) where it has units, else storeys from the 70th-percentile roof height. | Open API | 190 buildings sized | Live 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 (3DBAG); CC0 (BAG) |
| Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden) European Environment Agency | Open API | scoring | Live 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 permission | 0 | Pending 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 download | 0 | Live 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 download | 0 | Live 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 API | 42 | Live 2026-10-09 | Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA) |
| Church buildings no longer used for worship (Reliwiki) Reliwiki — Dutch database of religious buildings (volunteers), found through Wikidata Every religious building in the city that Wikidata links to a Reliwiki page (P8897); scripts/reuse/import-reliwiki.ts reads the page (live, or its newest Wayback Machine snapshot when reliwiki.nl is down, as on 7 Oct 2026). Category "Buiten Gebruik" with no current use = empty; with another use = already converted (a precedent). Reliwiki states no licence: shown with credit and a link to each page (decision 6 Oct 2026), off on request. | EHC research | 0 | Live 2026-10-09 | No licence stated — credited and linked per building (Wikidata links: CC0) |
| 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 research | 0 | Live 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 research | 0 | Live 2026-10-09 | Cited publisher per point |
| Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source) European Housing Coop research | EHC research | 5 | Live 2026-10-09 | Facts cited to their publishers |
| Listed buildings: Rijksmonumenten Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (via PDOK) National monuments as outlines (INSPIRE protected sites). Municipal monuments are not in this register. | Open API | scoring | Live 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 |
| Year built: BAG building register Kadaster (Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen, via PDOK) The original construction year (bouwjaar) of the BAG building a record sits in. | Open API | scoring | Live 2026-10-09 | CC0 1.0 |
| 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 API | scoring | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors) |
| Buildings with a demolition permit granted (BAG) Kadaster — Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen (via PDOK) | Open API | 59 | Live 2026-10-09 | CC0 1.0 |
| Office-only buildings with a unit of 1,000 m² or more (BAG) Kadaster — Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen (via PDOK) | Open API | 186 | Live 2026-10-09 | CC0 1.0 |
| Permits to turn offices into homes (applied for 2017–2026) Gemeente Eindhoven — aangevraagde vergunningen (open data portal) | Open API | 41 | Live 2026-10-09 | Public Domain (as stated on the portal) |
| Brownfield land (OpenStreetMap) OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | 6 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
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The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.