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Kaunas

Kaunas is the one Lithuanian city that publishes the buildings it calls neglected, by address: the City Council's 2025 list holds 194 rows for 106 addresses (173 objects when first approved in October 2025), and from 1 January 2026 their owners pay 5% property tax instead of 3%. About a third of the structures on the 2024 list lay in UNESCO and other protected heritage areas. The State adds buildings through Turto bankas (Šv. Gertrūdos g. 4, Kęstučio g. 42), but the office market is tight: 2.3% vacancy in the first half of 2025.
Vacant office space2.3%of the office stock stands empty (the floor area is not published)
Empty buildings on record638 confirmed
On the map353buildings and sites from 9 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: Newsec Kaunas Office Outlook 2025 H1: stock about 277,300 m², vacancy 2.3%, no new space delivered in the half-year, 23,600 m² due in H2 2025; A-class rents EUR 16–18 per m² a month. No 2026 figure was found and no m² figure for the empty space is published. 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 City publishes the list only as a web table: there are no coordinates, owners, conditions or former uses, and “neglected” is not “empty” — the points are placed from street addresses and must be field-checked.

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

Check any building in Kaunas: 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
73Sandėliai ir garažas
Public building named vacant · Sandėlis
4,050 m²9.3 m2,387 mB fit only
65Vytauto pr. 1, opposite the railway station
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
2,200 m²17.8 m126 mA fit only
48Europos pr. 91, listed in several years (mapped as the Kaunas glass factory)
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
3,600 m²19.3 m2,619 mA fit only
48A. Juozapavičiaus pr. 120, Šančiai
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
——499 m—
48Astronomijos g. 6, Žaliakalnis
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
7,884 m²—2,128 m—
48Ašigalio g. 4, Eiguliai
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
4,602 m²———
45A. Juozapavičiaus pr. 19, Kaunas
Distressed or stranded (named) · Building on the abandoned or unmaintained property list · 1 other source nearby
4,422 m²18.1 m2,256 mA fit only
43Laisvės al. 46A, Kaunas
Distressed or stranded (named) · Building on the abandoned or unmaintained property list · 1 other source nearby
4,960 m²26.8 m1,597 mB fit only
42A. Juozapavičiaus pr. 25K, Kaunas
Distressed or stranded (named) · Building on the abandoned or unmaintained property list · 2 other sources nearby
8,808 m²—2,120 m—
37A. Juozapavičiaus pr. 25A, Kaunas
Distressed or stranded (named) · Building on the abandoned or unmaintained property list · 1 other source nearby
8,808 m²28.4 m2,119 mB fit only

Districts where conversion makes sense

Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.

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Centro (Old Town, New Town, Žaliakalnis edge)

The most listed buildings: 16 addresses and 51 rows on the 2025 list, including Šv. Gertrūdos g. 38 and 40, Vytauto pr. 1 by the railway station, Savanorių pr. 63 (13 records) and the Kurpių g. ruin.

  • 16 addresses, 51 rows in Centro (of 106 addresses, 194 rows citywide)
  • Šv. Gertrūdos g. 4 (about 2,200 m², State) offered at auction in September 2026

Risk: Heritage protection and private owners who have sat on the list for years; the list does not say whether a building is empty.

3 sources

Aleksotas

Second only to Centro by rows: 11 addresses and 33 rows, led by Europos pr. 91 (11 records, mapped as the glass factory) and Europos pr. 21 (7 records).

  • 11 addresses, 33 rows in Aleksotas
  • Europos pr. 91 is one of the buildings the City names as listed year after year

Risk: Industrial buildings with unknown condition; the list names no owner.

2 sources

Šančiai

An old industrial and railway district with 16 addresses and 20 rows on the list (A. Juozapavičiaus pr., Drobės g., Kranto al.), next to the State workshop on Drobės g. 11 that Turto bankas is selling.

  • 16 addresses, 20 rows in Šančiai
  • Drobės g. 11: workshops of 471 m² at a Turto bankas auction on 26–27 Oct 2026, starting price EUR 376,827

Risk: Small and mixed ownership; many addresses are outbuildings of larger plots.

2 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

Turto bankas (State property bank) — State buildings no longer needed

Turto bankas sells State buildings at public auctions: on 9 Oct 2026 the national auction portal listed Kęstučio g. 42 (1,029 m², 7–8 Dec), A. Mickevičiaus g. 25 (381 m²), Drobės g. 11 (471 m²) and A. Gustaičio g. 4A (371 m²), and the Šv. Gertrūdos g. 4 office building (about 2,200 m²) went to auction in September. A co-operative needs the starting price and a financing partner; Turto bankas's news pages announce the larger buildings weeks ahead.

2 sources
Private owner

Owners of buildings on the City's neglected-property list

A listed owner pays 5% property tax on the building (3% before 2026), which pushes owners to restore or sell; the City also offers co-funding for façades through its Paveldotvarka and Įvaizdis programmes. A co-operative can approach owners of the 104 listed buildings as a buyer or long lessee — an owner may keep a building on the list for years, and the deputy mayor said in 2024 that some owners avoid the tax by imitating endless “construction”.

3 sources
City agency

City of Kaunas — public auctions of City property (Real Estate Department)

The City sells property it no longer needs at public auctions listed on kaunas.lt; the autumn 2026 lots (Skuodo, Tilkos, Žemaičių, Slavų streets and others) are flats, small houses and outbuildings, not buildings of a size a co-operative would convert.

1 source

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-09-02
    Šv. Gertrūdos g. 4 State office building goes to auction

    About 2,200 m² on four floors, formerly the Sodra customer reception, starting price EUR 1.94 million; auction 14 Sep 2026.

    1 source
  2. 2026-03-24
    Tax on listed neglected property rises to 5%

    Amendments to the Real Estate Tax Law in force since 1 Jan 2026 let the City charge 5% instead of 3% on buildings on its list; the 2025 list had 195 objects.

    1 source
  3. 2025-12-16
    Council decision T-980 approves the 2025 list

    The list page (published 22 Dec 2025, updated 25 Mar 2026) holds 194 rows with address, unique number and district.

    1 source
  4. 2025-10-08
    2025 list approved: 173 objects, 103 owners

    The City names Europos pr. 91, Šv. Gertrūdos g. 40, Partizanų g. 72A, Ašigalio g. 4, Didžioji g. 38, Kalantos g. 83, A. Juozapavičiaus pr. 120, Astronomijos g. 6 and Vytauto pr. 1 as buildings that keep returning to the list.

    1 source
  5. 2024-10-09
    2024 list: 176 objects, 89 owners

    About a third lie in UNESCO World Heritage and other protected heritage areas; 135 are in the centre, Aleksotas, Eiguliai and Šančiai.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

17 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 API66Live
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 download212 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 API86Live
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 research11Live
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)
Buildings on the City's list of abandoned or unmaintained real estate (2025)
Kauno miesto savivaldybės taryba (Kaunas City Council) — list published by the City's Licences, Permits and Services Department; placed by scripts/reuse/import-kaunas-neglected-property.ts
Open download104Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the page; the list is a municipal Council decision — used with credit to Kauno miesto savivaldybė (EHC decision of 9 Oct 2026: shown with credit, removed on request)
Premises on the City's list of abandoned or unmaintained real estate (2025)
Kauno miesto savivaldybės taryba (Kaunas City Council) — list published by the City's Licences, Permits and Services Department; placed by scripts/reuse/import-kaunas-neglected-property.ts
Open download2Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the page; the list is a municipal Council decision — used with credit to Kauno miesto savivaldybė (EHC decision of 9 Oct 2026: shown with credit, removed on request)
State buildings for sale now at Turto bankas public auctions
AB Turto bankas (State property bank), via the national auction portal evarzytynes.lt — read by scripts/reuse/import-vilnius-evarzytynes.ts
Open download4Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the portal (public sale notices); Turto bankas open data: free reuse with credit to AB Turto bankas — used with credit to AB Turto bankas
Office buildings mapped in OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API60Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Brownfield land (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API11Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
State buildings the State Property Bank will put up for auction ('Būs parduodama')
VĮ Turto bankas (State Property Bank)
Open download9Live
2026-10-09
not stated — credited to the publisher

What this radar cannot see yet

  • The City publishes the list only as a web table: there are no coordinates, owners, conditions or former uses, and “neglected” is not “empty” — the points are placed from street addresses and must be field-checked.
  • The City of Kaunas has no open map layer of its buildings or its property that was found; the national real-estate register's open attributes (use, storeys, areas) and building outlines are separate files with no public key between them.
  • No open orthophoto: the National Land Survey's geoportal services answer 401 and the City's planning company publishes none, so Kaunas's building cards show Esri's World Imagery instead.
  • The State property bank's site turtas.lt and the national auction portal show only sales already announced; the City's own auction lots are flats and small houses and were not wired.
  • The older lists (2021–2024) name further buildings; only the newest (2025) is wired. The City's next list is due in December 2026.
  • kaunas.lt's footer forbids copying without consent: the list is a Council decision, used with credit to the City and removed on request.

Know an empty building we have missed?

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

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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.

Bydgoszcz, Poland276empty buildings on recordEspoo, Finland654empty buildings on recordGdańsk, Poland415empty buildings on recordHelsinki, Finland517empty buildings on recordKraków, Poland351empty buildings on recordŁódź, Poland481empty buildings on recordLublin, Poland200empty buildings on recordPoznań, Poland307empty buildings on recordRiga, Latvia1,210empty buildings on recordTallinn, Estonia269empty buildings on recordVilnius, Lithuania283empty buildings on recordWarsaw, Poland1,352empty buildings on record