Office figures: Avison Young, The Big Nine, Q2 2026 — Glasgow office vacancy 10.7% (down 44 basis points on the quarter), Grade A vacancy 0.9%; no availability figure in square feet is published on the page. 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.
No open list of empty business premises: Glasgow does not publish its empty-property rates accounts, and the Scottish Assessors' valuation roll is searchable one address at a time only.
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Glasgow: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | 168-170 Hope Street Distressed or stranded (named) · Offices · 1 other source nearby | 1,612 m² | 13.9 m | 273 m | A fit only | |
| 78 | Castle Chambers Distressed or stranded (named) · Offices · 1 other source nearby | 2,580 m² | 16.1 m | 224 m | A fit only | |
| 68 | 61 Bridge Street Distressed or stranded (named) · Storage Buildings · 1 other source nearby | 2,140 m² | 14.2 m | 117 m | A fit only | |
| 68 | 43 Oswald Street, City Centre City vacancy listing · Shops | 4,386 m² | 13.6 m | 112 m | A fit only | |
| 63 | Former Glasgow High School, Holland Street City vacancy listing · 3 other sources nearby | — | 16 m | 157 m | — | |
| 63 | Whitevale Baths On public land · Recreation & Leisure · 1 other source nearby | — | 7.8 m | 498 m | — | |
| 62 | Charles Oakley Campus City vacancy listing · Universities and Colleges · 1 other source nearby | 8,496 m² | 20.2 m | 231 m | A fit only | |
| 58 | Former social care facility, Wardie Road Public building named vacant · 1 other source nearby | 3,448 m² | — | 1,129 m | — | |
| 58 | 80 Melbourne Street Public building named vacant · 2 other sources nearby | — | — | 306 m | — | |
| 58 | Elmbank Street City vacancy listing · Offices · 4 other sources nearby | — | — | 133 m | — |
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
The most buildings at risk in one place: empty department stores, upper floors and offices along the 'Golden Z' shopping streets.
Risk: Many records are empty upper floors above trading shops; owners are mostly private and the register's inspections date from 2023–2024.
Large council-owned vacant and derelict sites next to the St Rollox works.
Risk: Mostly land rather than buildings; derelict sites need remediation.
Former factories with buildings standing empty, and the largest public derelict site — the ex-Provan gasworks.
Risk: Industrial sites with contamination; the McVitie's factory owner is private.
Riverside sites and the listed graving docks in a regeneration area.
Risk: The docks have housing-led plans by a private developer.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
Under the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 a community body can ask a council, the Scottish Ministers or another listed public body to transfer land or buildings it believes it could use better — by sale, lease or other rights. The 255 council-owned vacant and derelict sites on the survey are the obvious starting list.
Grants of £5,000 to £1 million help community-led organisations in urban and rural Scotland buy land and buildings that matter to them, with support to develop the project first.
The council records every vacant and derelict site of 0.1 ha or more each year with its owner type, previous use and development potential; the register page asks anyone interested in a site to contact the council, which can help identify the owner.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
Avison Young puts Glasgow's office vacancy at 10.7% in the second quarter of 2026, with Grade A space almost fully let (0.9%).
Scotland recorded 8,591 ha of derelict and urban vacant land in 2025; just over a fifth (21%) of the urban vacant land is in Glasgow City.
In September 2025 Glasgow had 3,009 homes empty for six months or more (2,039 for over a year), up from 2,501 a year earlier, and 5,147 more exempt from council tax as unoccupied.
HES recorded new applications for flats with shops and business space at the vacant listed docks.
19 sources connected. 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 | 316 | 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 | 335 buildings sized | Live 2026-10-09 | CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL |
| Storeys where nothing better sizes the building: EUBUCCO v0.2 EUBUCCO (TU Berlin / ai4up) EUBUCCO v0.2, ODbL 1.0 — Glasgow has no open register or 3D model with storeys. Used only for buildings nothing else sizes: storeys mapped in OpenStreetMap, else EUBUCCO’s own estimate. | Open download | 9 buildings sized | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
| 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 | 1 | Live 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 | 68 | Live 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 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 | 8 | 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) |
| Sites with vacant buildings — Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey Scottish Government (Communities Analysis Division) — Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey: Site Register 2025, from the councils' returns (Glasgow City Council) | Open download | 6 | Live 2026-10-09 | Open Government Licence v3.0 (gov.scot; the same survey is OGL v3 on the Improvement Service's Spatial Hub) — the register page says the councils own the site information and asks for the council's permission before reuse; credited to the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council |
| Publicly owned vacant and derelict land — Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey Scottish Government (Communities Analysis Division) — Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey: Site Register 2025, from the councils' returns (Glasgow City Council) | Open download | 306 | Live 2026-10-09 | Open Government Licence v3.0 (gov.scot; the same survey is OGL v3 on the Improvement Service's Spatial Hub) — the register page says the councils own the site information and asks for the council's permission before reuse; credited to the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council |
| Other vacant and derelict land — Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey Scottish Government (Communities Analysis Division) — Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey: Site Register 2025, from the councils' returns (Glasgow City Council) | Open download | 269 | Live 2026-10-09 | Open Government Licence v3.0 (gov.scot; the same survey is OGL v3 on the Improvement Service's Spatial Hub) — the register page says the councils own the site information and asks for the council's permission before reuse; credited to the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council |
| Vacant buildings on the Buildings at Risk Register Historic Environment Scotland — Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland (BARR), as republished by Glasgow City Council (Development and Regeneration Services, ArcGIS layer “Buildings at Risk (HES)”) | Open API | 99 | Live 2026-10-09 | Open Government Licence v3.0 — HES offers BARR as one of its portal spatial downloads, all OGL v3 (portal.historicenvironment.scot/termsandconditions): “Contains Historic Environment Scotland and OS data © Historic Environment Scotland and Crown Copyright and database right 2024, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.” (The buildingsatrisk.org.uk website itself says all rights reserved.) |
| Partly occupied buildings at risk (Buildings at Risk Register) Historic Environment Scotland — Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland (BARR), as republished by Glasgow City Council (Development and Regeneration Services, ArcGIS layer “Buildings at Risk (HES)”) | Open API | 23 | Live 2026-10-09 | Open Government Licence v3.0 — HES offers BARR as one of its portal spatial downloads, all OGL v3 (portal.historicenvironment.scot/termsandconditions): “Contains Historic Environment Scotland and OS data © Historic Environment Scotland and Crown Copyright and database right 2024, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.” (The buildingsatrisk.org.uk website itself says all rights reserved.) |
| Office buildings mapped in OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | 166 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL |
Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Glasgow that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.
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.