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Košice

Košice publishes no register of empty buildings, no property map with use and no brownfield list: its open-data portal holds 94 datasets and none on property, and the State's register of offered property lists two small premises in the city. What is visible are named buildings — the City-owned Kino Družba, with no tenant since 2009, a State-owned former railway school on Masarykova that the ministry wants to demolish, and the overgrown 1.4 ha Alvinczyho dvor — while a flat costs 14.2 average annual salaries.
Vacant office spaceNot yet measured
Empty buildings on record343 confirmed
On the map366buildings and sites from 5 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No office vacancy figure for Košice was found in the reports Property Forum publishes from the research forums (it carries Bratislava and the Czech regional cities); OpenStreetMap maps 313 office buildings in the city's box. Map built 2026-10-09.

Košice city profileReuse atlas: all of Europe

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.

Košice's open-data portal (94 datasets) carries no property register, no vacancy list and no brownfield layer; its two parcel layers ("registers C and E", September 2025) carry no owner or use field.

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Check any building in Košice: 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.

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Staré Mesto (old town and its edge)

A State-owned former school on Masarykova, the overgrown Alvinczyho dvor plot of former barracks and the State's only two Košice offers sit within the old-town ring.

  • Masarykova: abandoned, dilapidated three-storey State building; demolition planned (13 Apr 2026)
  • Alvinczyho dvor: more than 13,600 m², almost all buildings demolished, 122 flats proposed (30 Apr 2025)
  • State premises on offer: a 31.3 m² school room at Námestie L. Novomeského 4 (bids by 16 Oct 2026)

Risk: Heritage rules and a petition to list the Masarykova school as a monument; Alvinczyho dvor is in a private developer's hands.

3 sources

Hronská (Kino Družba) and the outer estates

The City's own landmark cinema has stood without a tenant since 2009 and now has a permit and EU money for a cultural centre; the City is also converting a decayed nursery on Gerlachovská into a care home.

  • Kino Družba: no tenant since 2009, permit obtained, completion aimed at early 2029 (May 2025)
  • Gerlachovská nursery: EUR 3.9m conversion into a 28-bed care home, groundbreaking 5 June 2026

Risk: The City plans culture and care here, not housing; both projects depend on EU funds and tenders.

2 sources

Owners and routes in

Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.

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Public owner

Mesto Košice — property department (oddelenie právne a majetkové)

The City publishes notices of intent to lease or sell its property (direct leases, sales and lettings for "special reasons") on its official board and in its open-data portal each month; the September 2026 notice lists only a car, so none of the City's buildings was on offer. A co-op can ask the department for the Kino Družba lease terms (an association has held it since 2022) and for City buildings without a programme.

2 sources
Public owner

Slovak State — ROPK register and the education ministry

State bodies must offer surplus real estate in the Ministry of Finance's register ROPK; in October 2026 it held two small Košice premises. The education ministry's regional school office controls the abandoned Masarykova building and wants it demolished; a co-op can ask the office before the procurement ends.

2 sources

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-06-05
    City converts a decayed nursery into a care home

    Groundbreaking on Gerlachovská: EUR 3.9m from EU funds, 28 residents, over 1,200 m².

    1 source
  2. 2026-04-13
    State plans to demolish an abandoned school on Masarykova

    The education ministry says it will proceed to demolition as soon as project documents and procurement are cleared; activists want it listed as a monument.

    1 source
  3. 2025-08-27
    Košice needs 14.2 annual salaries for a flat

    Deloitte's Property Index 2025 puts a 70 m² flat in Košice at 14.2 average annual salaries, about EUR 3,400 per m².

    1 source
  4. 2025-05-27
    Kino Družba gets a building permit

    The City of Košice obtained the permit to rebuild the cinema, empty of tenants since 2009, into a cultural centre; completion is aimed at early 2029.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

13 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 API45Live
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 download214 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 API29Live
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 research5Live
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 API273Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Brownfield land mapped on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API14Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • Košice's open-data portal (94 datasets) carries no property register, no vacancy list and no brownfield layer; its two parcel layers ("registers C and E", September 2025) carry no owner or use field.
  • Slovakia has no open building register with use and storeys (the INSPIRE buildings service answered "disabled", then with a bot-management page); floor areas come from the Global Building Atlas.
  • The national brownfield mapping of the Ministry of Investments (EUR 2.0m, seven regions including Košice) has published nothing yet, and the Ministry of Environment's earlier degraded-areas mapping covers only 169 municipalities.
  • The City's monthly notices of intent to lease or sell property name buildings when there are any, but are PDF notices with no map; the other 2026 notices were not read.
  • Košice's empty-building leads (Kino Družba, Masarykova, Alvinczyho dvor) come from press reports, not data; the railway-hospital complex that the State has tried to sell for years was still in use when last reported (March 2024).

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Košice 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.

Bratislava, Slovakia175empty buildings on recordBrno, Czechia181empty buildings on recordBudapest, Hungary392empty buildings on recordCluj-Napoca, Romania34empty buildings on recordKraków, Poland351empty buildings on recordŁódź, Poland481empty buildings on recordLublin, Poland200empty buildings on recordOstrava, Czechia42empty buildings on recordTimișoara, Romania23empty buildings on recordVienna, Austria229empty buildings on recordWarsaw, Poland1,352empty buildings on recordWrocław, Poland676empty buildings on record