Office figures: No broker publishes a current office vacancy rate for Málaga; the city's office stock is small and new-build, so offices are not where its empty floor space lies. 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.
The City has no published list of its empty buildings and refused a transparency request for one in September 2025.
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Málaga: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | Convento de la Trinidad Public building named vacant | 8,088 m² | — | 1,147 m | — | |
| 58 | Ruin, cadastral ref. 2240114UF7624S Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial · 1 storey | 3,025 m² | 28.3 m | 197 m | B fit only | |
| 57 | residential building, cadastral ref. 000501600UF66G Distressed or stranded (named) · residential · 2 storeys · 1 other source nearby | 3,392 m² | 11.3 m | — | A fit only | |
| 48 | building, cadastral ref. 2156101UF7625N Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby | 8,088 m² | — | 1,129 m | — | |
| 47 | residential building, cadastral ref. 29900A02200013 Distressed or stranded (named) · residential · 3 storeys · 1 other source nearby | 1,503 m² | 11.9 m | 1,653 m | A fit only | |
| 46 | Ruin, cadastral ref. 002100100UF76A Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial | 2,322 m² | — | 1,021 m | — | |
| 37 | agriculture building, cadastral ref. 29900A01900001 Distressed or stranded (named) · agriculture · 2 storeys · 1 other source nearby | 4,852 m² | 45.4 m | 1,745 m | C fit only |
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
The most homes empty in absolute terms and the most second and tourist homes, around a historic centre where the City's register of plots and ruins began.
Risk: Tourist demand sets prices; the City is only now designing a moratorium on tourist flats.
The City's largest empty building, the former provincial prison, sits in a dense working-class district.
Risk: The City has earmarked it for culture; housing would need a change of plan.
The empty Convento de la Trinidad and the State building on Calle Rivas Fernández sit in an old working-class quarter west of the river.
Risk: The convent is planned as a regional cultural centre; the State building's use is not stated.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
The City puts municipal plots out on 75-year concessions for affordable rental homes with a subsidy of up to €18,000 a home (14 plots, about 1,100 homes, awarded in 2026). A co-op can bid in the next round, alone or with a partner, and ask for plots reserved for co-operatives in cesión de uso.
Plots and buildings whose owners miss the duty to build or rehabilitate enter the register; after a year without works they pass to forced substitution, in which the City can run a tender for an agent to take over. A co-op can apply as that agent for a listed building.
The State still holds unassigned buildings in the city (Patrimonio del Estado) and the Junta lists its property quarterly as open data. Long-empty public buildings such as the old prison and the Trinidad convent show how slowly they find uses; a co-op can propose a housing share in such projects.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
The City granted the Fundación Unicaja a 75-year concession over the empty Astoria-Victoria cinema plot (1,299 m², 6,340 m² buildable, valued at €17.6 million) by direct award.
Asking rents averaged €17.0 per m² a month in the first quarter of 2026; every district except Málaga Este is above a 30% rent burden.
Projects for the 14 municipal plots tendered on 75-year concessions were presented; homes are capped at 70 m², 60% for young people.
The planning office refused a transparency request for a list of empty or unused municipal premises and buildings, saying it would need re-elaboration across several systems.
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.
| Source | Access | Records | Status | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | 2,291 | 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 | 217 buildings sized | Live 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 download | 1,469 buildings sized | Live 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 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 | 0 | Pending 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 | 196 | Live 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 download | 0 | Live 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 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 | 3 | 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) |
| Central-state property held unassigned (Patrimonio del Estado) Gobierno de España — Portal de la Transparencia, Ministerio de Hacienda inventory of state property (CIBI), exported 8 Oct 2026 | Open API | 1 | Live 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 download | 131 | Live 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 download | 113 | Live 2026-10-09 | Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro) |
| Heritage at risk in Málaga — Hispania Nostra's Lista Roja Hispania Nostra — Lista Roja del Patrimonio | Open download | 3 | Live 2026-10-09 | All rights reserved (Hispania Nostra, aviso legal): only the entry's name, the street, the date added and a link to its card are kept — no descriptions or photos; credited "Hispania Nostra — Lista Roja" |
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The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.