Office figures: No broker publishes a Florence office vacancy figure (searched 8 Oct 2026). 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.
The City publishes no list of its own empty buildings or empty public flats (Casa Spa reports them to the City, not to the public).
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Florence: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?
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.
| Priority | Building | Floor area | Depth | Station | Conversion check | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | Fabbricato per attività produttiva Public building named vacant · Fabbricato per attività produttiva (industriale, artigianale o agricola) | 2,636 m² | — | 428 m | — | |
| 83 | Caserma Public building named vacant · Caserma | 4,502 m² | 15 m | 1,529 m | A fit only | |
| 76 | Caserma Perotti - Fabbricato 2 Public building named vacant · "caserma Generale Perotti" Coverciano-Firenze Via del Gignoro CIV.38 · 1 other source nearby | 2,504 m² | — | 916 m | — | |
| 76 | Caserma Perotti - Fabbricato 4 Public building named vacant · "caserma Generale Perotti" Coverciano-Firenze Via del Gignoro CIV.38 · 1 other source nearby | 4,599 m² | — | 916 m | — | |
| 76 | Caserma Perotti - Fabbricato 30 Public building named vacant · "caserma Generale Perotti" Coverciano-Firenze Via del Gignoro CIV.38 · 1 other source nearby | 3,389 m² | — | 916 m | — | |
| 73 | Complesso Le Cascine Public building named vacant · 1 other source nearby | 3,004 m² | 15.5 m | 2,336 m | B fit only | |
| 73 | Caserma Francesco Ferrucci - Fabbricato 1 On public land · Caserma Francesco Ferrucci · 1 other source nearby | 5,194 m² | 13.2 m | 1,079 m | A fit only | |
| 73 | Caserma Perotti - Fabbricato 3 Public building named vacant · "caserma Generale Perotti" Coverciano-Firenze Via del Gignoro CIV.38 · 1 other source nearby | 2,153 m² | — | 916 m | — | |
| 70 | Autocentro Regionale di Polizia - Capannone Ad Uso Garage, Officina e Aule della Motorizzazione Public building named vacant · Autocentro Regionale di Polizia | 2,149 m² | 14.8 m | 2,555 m | A fit only | |
| 68 | Caserma Gori - Fabbricato 4 On public land · Caserma "gori"- Via Valfonda 13,25 · 1 other source nearby | 5,919 m² | 37.3 m | 207 m | A fit only |
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
The largest free State floor space: the Perotti barracks and the Covercianino fuel depot.
Risk: Both are earmarked for the police, fire brigade and Carabinieri.
Former convents and barracks the State holds next to the university: Sant'Apollonia, San Pancrazio and the Redi barracks.
Risk: Short-term letting and luxury hotels compete for every central building; most are listed.
The Cascine complex and the Quarleri barracks are the Piano Città's sites for student and social housing; former works (ex Meccanotessile, ex Gover) wait nearby.
Risk: The airport and its noise limit homes near Peretola.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
Signed on 6 May 2026 for 17 properties (15 State, 2 City), open to public-private partnerships. The Redi barracks will get a temporary-use initiative before the Court of Auditors moves in, and Quarleri is to include social housing — a co-op can bid for temporary use or offer to run the social homes.
Since June 2026 the City can call for applicants on the public-housing list to take an empty flat that needs works, pay for the works and deduct them from the rent (Tuscan regional law 2/2019, art. 16). The manager, Casa Spa, must tell the City which flats are free and what works they need. Groups of households organised as a co-op could take on several flats in one building.
€20m over 2025–2027 through Casa Spa to bring empty public flats back into use: more than 270 restored and about 320 let in 2025. The City also regulates short-term lets in the centre (first such regulation in Italy, May 2025).
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
The Council changed its public-housing rules so that flats needing works can be offered to applicants, who deduct the cost from the rent.
Perotti becomes a security hub, Redi the Court of Auditors, Quarleri an archive hub with social housing, the Cascine a student and research campus.
The City's RIGENERA project for disused buildings clears the former barracks for a social-housing quarter.
The first €6m of a €20m plan brought more than 270 empty public flats back into use; about 320 were let.
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 | 72 | 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 | 69 buildings sized | Live 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 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 | 10 | Live 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 download | 0 | Live 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 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 | 6 | Live 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 API | scoring | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors) |
| State buildings recorded as free (Agenzia del Demanio) Agenzia del Demanio — Geoportale, Immobili dello Stato | Open API | 16 | Live 2026-10-09 | No licence stated on the map service — credited to Agenzia del Demanio (its open-data files are CC BY 3.0 IT); shown under the 6 Oct 2026 licence decision |
| State-owned buildings of 1,000 m² or more in use (Agenzia del Demanio) Agenzia del Demanio — Geoportale, Immobili dello Stato | Open API | 187 | Live 2026-10-09 | No licence stated on the map service — credited to Agenzia del Demanio (its open-data files are CC BY 3.0 IT); shown under the 6 Oct 2026 licence decision |
| Property confiscated from organised crime and handed to public bodies (ANBSC) Agenzia nazionale per l'amministrazione e la destinazione dei beni sequestrati e confiscati (ANBSC) — OpenRE.G.I.O. | Manual download | 5 | Snapshot 2026-10-09 | IODL 2.0 (Italian Open Data Licence, linked from the portal) |
| OpenStreetMap: land mapped as brownfield OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | 5 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
| City of Florence: buildings in the sales and development plan 2025-27 Comune di Firenze — Direzione Patrimonio Immobiliare | Open download | 4 | Live 2026-10-09 | not stated — public council paper, credited to the publisher |
| Public buildings their owner records as not used (Treasury property census 2023) Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze, Dipartimento dell'Economia — Rilevazione dei beni immobili delle amministrazioni pubbliche (data at 31 Dec 2023) | Manual download | 17 | Snapshot 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 (stated on the MEF open-data page; reuse with the source credited) |
| Public flats, shops and stores their owner records as not used (Treasury property census 2023) Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze, Dipartimento dell'Economia — Rilevazione dei beni immobili delle amministrazioni pubbliche (data at 31 Dec 2023) | Manual download | 370 | Snapshot 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 (stated on the MEF open-data page; reuse with the source credited) |
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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.