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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has the second-highest share of empty homes of the five cities in this round — 29,604 of 182,890 (16%) in the 2021 census — and a street-by-street count of La Isleta by Canarias' public broadcaster found 248 sealed homes, 424 closed commercial premises and almost 100 plots in its 115 streets (November 2023). The City publishes no property or vacancy layer (its open-data portal answered HTTP 503 on 9 October 2026), so the radar rests on the cadastre — 158 ruins, 281 declined buildings of 300 m² or more, 189 offices — and four State-held properties from the Hacienda inventory. The way in is public land: on 26 June 2026 the City approved changing the use of 11 municipal plots (59,768 m²) for 1,800 to 2,000 public homes, and on 5 October 2026 it tendered 115 rental homes on plot VP-03.
Vacant office spaceNot yet measured
Empty buildings on record181and 1 more with an empty shop, flat or floor; of all 182, 162 confirmed
On the map968buildings and sites from 8 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No broker publishes an office vacancy rate for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; the cadastre records 189 office buildings of 1,000 m² or more (about 0.98 million m² of gross floor area) but not whether they are let. Map built 2026-10-09.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 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.

The City publishes no inventory of its buildings, no list of empty premises and no register of ruins or plots; its open-data portal (datosabiertos.laspalmasgc.es) answered HTTP 503 on 9 October 2026 and opendata.laspalmasgc.es an empty page.

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Check any building in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: 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
63publicServices building, cadastral ref. 7924802DS5172S
Distressed or stranded (named) · publicServices · 1 other source nearby
8,329 m²8.8 m—A fit only
48Ruin, cadastral ref. 001200200DS50E
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial
3,000 m²———
48residential building, cadastral ref. 7221801DS5172S
Distressed or stranded (named) · residential · 1 other source nearby
2,471 m²———
45Avenida Primero de Mayo, 12
Public building named vacant · Building
1,713 m²27.6 m—C fit only
44residential building, cadastral ref. 7937919DS5173N
Distressed or stranded (named) · residential · 7 storeys · 3 other sources nearby
2,147 m²18.6 m—A fit only
43C Mahon 6
Public building named vacant · Plot
————
43Av Maritima (trasera de Juan Rejon 66)
Public building named vacant · Plot
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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

La Isleta

The one barrio where a count of closed homes, closed premises and plots exists — made on foot by a news team — in an old seafront quarter where planning now allows taller buildings.

  • 248 homes sealed with chains or padlocks, 424 closed commercial premises and almost 100 plots, in 115 streets (November 2023)
  • Planning changes now allow taller buildings and small urban hotels are appearing

Risk: The count lists numbers, not addresses; neighbours say many closed homes are inherited and the City gave the reporters no plan for the area.

1 source

Vegueta and Triana

The historic centre holds municipal buildings in ruin and old houses the City is moving to expropriate.

  • Two municipal buildings on Calle Mayor de Triana, in ruin with a risk of collapse, were cleared of squatters on 15 January 2021
  • In July 2024 the City opened the expropriation of a 400-year-old house in Vegueta-Triana

Risk: The expropriation is for heritage conservation, not housing, and the sources give no building numbers.

2 sources

Ciudad Alta, Las Torres and Tamaraceite (municipal plots)

Where the City is putting public housing: plot VP-03 beside the Parque de La Ballena and the Las Torres plot behind the Las Ramblas centre.

  • VP-03 Pepe Gonçalvez Norte: 115 rental homes, €22.47 million, tendered 5 October 2026, 22 months of works
  • Las Torres: 240 homes funded by the Cabildo (€39.6 million), works planned for 2027

Risk: Plots for the City's own rental housing, not for a co-op to buy; the Las Torres homes will be owned by the City.

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

Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria — 11 municipal plots changed to public housing use

On 26 June 2026 the plenary approved changing the use of 11 municipal plots (59,768 m² in Tamaraceite, Las Torres, El Batán, Casablanca III, San Lázaro and La Minilla) to build 1,800 to 2,000 public homes under the regional decree-law 1/2024; the municipal urban-management company GEURSA made the technical study. A co-op can ask for some of these plots, or for a share of the homes, to be run in cession-of-use or co-operative management rather than as ordinary public rental.

1 source
Public owner

Cabildo de Gran Canaria and the City — Las Torres and VP-03 rental homes

The Cabildo pays €39.6 million through the Gran Canaria housing consortium for 240 homes on a municipal plot in Las Torres, while the City is promoter, owner and manager and drafts the project during 2026 (works from 2027, 48 months from the agreement); the City funds the 115 homes of plot VP-03 alone. A co-op can propose to manage part of either scheme or to partner on the next plots.

2 sources

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-10-05
    115 public rental homes tendered on plot VP-03

    The City published the tender for 115 homes on the municipal plot VP-03 (Pepe Gonçalvez Norte, beside the Parque de La Ballena): €22,471,112.75, 22 months, financed entirely by the City.

    1 source
  2. 2026-06-26
    Eleven municipal plots changed to housing use

    The plenary approved the use change for 11 plots (59,768 m²) after more than 200 objections; one Tamaraceite plot was dropped.

    1 source
  3. 2026-04-13
    Museo Néstor restoration starts

    The City began restoring the Museo Néstor at Pueblo Canario (€4,049,583, paid half by the City and half by the Canary Islands Government and the Cabildo).

    1 source
  4. 2026-03-13
    Citizen initiative to recover the Casa del Niño in Zárate

    The former orphanage (built 1938-44, inhabited until 1991) is in poor condition, not properly fenced or sealed; the Cabildo has shown interest in rehabilitating it. A petition update; the street address is not published.

    2 sources
  5. 2023-11-22
    La Isleta counted street by street

    248 homes closed with chains or padlocks, 424 closed commercial premises and almost 100 plots across 115 streets.

    1 source
  6. 2021-11
    Census 2021: 29,604 empty homes (16.2%)

    INE counted 144,987 main homes, 8,299 second homes and 29,604 empty homes (182,890 in all) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 1 November 2021; the INE calls a home empty when it has no electricity contract or very low consumption.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

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.

Show every source, its licence and when we last read it
SourceAccessRecordsStatusLicence
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API123Live
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 download3 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Official floor areas and uses: Catastro INSPIRE buildings
Dirección General del Catastro (Ministerio de Hacienda)
Fuente: Dirección General del Catastro. The official gross floor area (officialArea, grossFloorArea) and current use of the cadastral building a record sits in — everything built on that parcel.
Open download13 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
Catastro INSPIRE licence 1.0 (free use of transformed information, with attribution)
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 API213Live
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 download0Live
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 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 research0Live
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)
Central-state buildings held unassigned (Patrimonio del Estado)
Gobierno de España — Portal de la Transparencia, Ministerio de Hacienda inventory of state property (CIBI), exported 9 Oct 2026
Open API1Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the export — shown with credit to the Portal de la Transparencia (EHC decision, 6 Oct 2026)
Central-state floors or premises held unassigned (Patrimonio del Estado)
Gobierno de España — Portal de la Transparencia, Ministerio de Hacienda inventory of state property (CIBI), exported 9 Oct 2026
Open API1Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the export — shown with credit to the Portal de la Transparencia (EHC decision, 6 Oct 2026)
Central-state plots held unassigned (Patrimonio del Estado)
Gobierno de España — Portal de la Transparencia, Ministerio de Hacienda inventory of state property (CIBI), exported 9 Oct 2026
Open API2Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the export — shown with credit to the Portal de la Transparencia (EHC decision, 6 Oct 2026)
Buildings the cadastre records as ruined
Dirección General del Catastro — INSPIRE Buildings (August 2026 release)
Open download158Live
2026-10-09
Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro)
Buildings the cadastre records as declined (300 m² or more)
Dirección General del Catastro — INSPIRE Buildings (August 2026 release)
Open download281Live
2026-10-09
Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro)
Office buildings of 1,000 m² or more (cadastre main use "office")
Dirección General del Catastro — INSPIRE Buildings (August 2026 release)
Open download189Live
2026-10-09
Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro)

What this radar cannot see yet

  • The City publishes no inventory of its buildings, no list of empty premises and no register of ruins or plots; its open-data portal (datosabiertos.laspalmasgc.es) answered HTTP 503 on 9 October 2026 and opendata.laspalmasgc.es an empty page.
  • The Canary Islands Government's inventory of its buildings (4,350 records, 419 in the city, updated January 2026) gives a name and street per property but no area, use or occupancy; "former" in a name (an "old Veterinary Faculty", an "old public-works laboratory") is not vacancy.
  • The Casa del Niño in Zárate and the two municipal ruins on Calle Mayor de Triana are named in the press without a street number, so they are not placed on the map.
  • The State holds four properties in the city (two plots, a building and one floor) in the Hacienda inventory; Defence's INVIED holdings and the port authority's are not published as lists.
  • The cadastre records 158 ruins and 281 declined buildings of 300 m² or more: condition, not vacancy.
  • Empty homes are counted by municipality only (INE, 2021); the La Isleta count is the only address-free neighbourhood figure.

Know an empty building we have missed?

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

A phone held up to photograph an empty shopfront, with a map pin drawn above it

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.

Alicante, Spain396empty buildings on recordAndorra la Vella, Andorra2empty buildings on recordBarcelona, Spain1,239empty buildings on recordBilbao, Spain19empty buildings on recordBordeaux, France167empty buildings on recordCórdoba, Spain294empty buildings on recordLisbon, Portugal179empty buildings on recordMadrid, Spain358empty buildings on recordMálaga, Spain1,929empty buildings on recordMurcia, Spain502empty buildings on recordPalma, Spain139empty buildings on recordPorto, Portugal414empty buildings on recordSeville, Spain128empty buildings on recordValencia, Spain840empty buildings on recordZaragoza, Spain279empty buildings on record