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Iași

Iași has no register of empty buildings, and its neglected-building tax keeps the annex with owners and addresses off the public record — in 2026 only three decisions name a building. What is public is scattered: the ISU's seismic list (199 blocks in classes I–III, 63 in class I, early 2023), City-owned buildings left empty for years, and 16 City premises offered for lease in December 2024, all unoccupied. Iași also has the emptiest modern offices of the four regional cities, 16.7% at the end of 2025.
Vacant office space49,500 m²16.7% of the stock stands empty
Empty buildings on record115 confirmed
On the map238buildings and sites from 4 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: Cushman & Wakefield Echinox — 296,200 m² of modern offices, 16.7% vacant at the end of 2025 (vacant area = stock × rate); iO Partners puts it at 13.3% in 2026. 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.

No register of empty buildings, no open list of the City's or the State's vacant buildings; the City's property list is not public and its GIS cadastre page offers documents, not a service.

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

Check any building in Iași: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?

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

Păcurari and Sărărie (north-west)

A run of City-owned buildings emptied or left to decay: a block on Șoseaua Sărărie vacant for years and two old courtyard buildings on Păcurari and Vântu emptied for demolition.

  • Șoseaua Sărărie 17: about 1,050 m², empty since about 2018
  • Păcurari 108 and Vântu: residents relocated, demolition for risk of collapse (2023)
  • Păcurari 66: City premises of 24 m² offered for lease (December 2024)

Risk: Small plots, old residents' disputes and the City's own pace; some buildings are being demolished rather than reused.

4 sources

Centre and Copou (Lascăr Catargi – Cuza Vodă – Ștefan cel Mare)

The old centre holds the ruined former Institute of Archaeology, City premises offered for lease and the cleared site of the Tineretului cinema.

  • Former Institute of Archaeology: collapsed roof, a ruin (2021)
  • 10 of the City's 16 premises offered for lease are in the central zone (December 2024)
  • Tineretului cinema: demolished in 2025, site returned to a parish (February 2026)

Risk: Restitution to churches and private heirs has taken several sites out of the City's hands.

3 sources

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
Public owner

Primăria Iași — its own empty buildings

The City holds buildings it has left empty for years (Sărărie 17) and leases unoccupied premises for five years (16 offered in December 2024). A co-op could ask for a long lease of a whole building in return for repair — the route the University of Arts proposed for Sărărie 17.

2 sources

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-05-06
    Iași has the highest office vacancy

    13.3% in iO Partners' count; Brașov lowest at 6.7%.

    1 source
  2. 2026-03-26
    Regional office report

    Iași holds 296,200 m² of modern offices, 16.7% vacant at the end of 2025.

    1 source
  3. 2026-02-27
    Council decisions on neglected buildings

    Three decisions of 2026 name a building (raising or ending an increase); the annexes with owners are not published.

    2 sources
  4. 2026-02-12
    Tineretului cinema site

    Demolished in 2025; the property went back to a parish and the City is negotiating a partnership.

    1 source
  5. 2024-12-19
    16 City premises for lease

    All unoccupied and in need of repair; starting rents 23–27 lei/m²/month.

    1 source
  6. 2023-06-16
    Two City buildings to be demolished

    Păcurari 108 and Vântu: vacant, at risk of collapse.

    1 source
  7. 2023-02-08
    Seismic list

    199 residential blocks in classes I–III, 63 of them in class I, on the ISU platform (the press headline says more than 250 buildings).

    1 source

Sources and freshness

12 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 API98Live
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 download44 buildings sizedLive
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 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 API76Live
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 research7Live
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)
Office buildings mapped on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API57Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • No register of empty buildings, no open list of the City's or the State's vacant buildings; the City's property list is not public and its GIS cadastre page offers documents, not a service.
  • The neglected-building decisions publish their annex (owner and address) only to the taxpayer: of 26 decisions found, three name one building each; none could be placed on the map.
  • The ISU seismic list is not published as a file we could find; only press summaries by street (63 class I blocks) exist.
  • The 16 City premises are units, not buildings, taken from a press report of the tender; the City's own notice was not opened.
  • No open cadastre of buildings (floor areas come from the Global Building Atlas); aerial photos come from the 2017–2020 national orthophoto at 1.5 m resolution.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Iași that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

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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.

Belgrade, Serbia127empty buildings on recordBrașov, Romania14empty buildings on recordBucharest, Romania112empty buildings on recordChișinău, Moldova111empty buildings on recordCluj-Napoca, Romania34empty buildings on recordConstanța, Romania153empty buildings on recordKošice, Slovakia34empty buildings on recordLublin, Poland200empty buildings on recordPlovdiv, Bulgaria46empty buildings on recordSofia, Bulgaria342empty buildings on recordTimișoara, Romania23empty buildings on recordVarna, Bulgaria56empty buildings on record