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Malmö

Malmö names its largest empty premises in a public plan: the City's premises-supply plan 2026–2035 lists its six largest vacant premises, which hold about 60% of a vacancy cost of SEK 54 million a year (2.8% of internal rent), and says that when no city need exists, the Service Department evaluates development or sale. Central office vacancy reached 14.1% in spring 2026 (Citymark). The radar maps the City's 583 managed properties, 161 plans in preparation and 119 OpenStreetMap offices.
Vacant office space14.1%of the office stock stands empty (the floor area is not published)
Empty buildings on record186 confirmed
On the map948buildings and sites from 7 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: Citymark, spring 2026: 14.1% of central Malmö office space vacant (12.7% in autumn 2025). Nearly 180 leases and just over 70,000 m² were let in 2025, the lowest area since 2020; the rise is mainly in older stock, and in new unlet offices at Hyllie. 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.

Malmö publishes no vacancy register and no layer of empty buildings: the six largest vacant premises are named in the premises-supply plan only (March 2025), and the plan does not say how many square metres stand empty or which floors.

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Check any building in Malmö: 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
63Kompani- och Biskopshuset
On public land · 2 storeys · 1 other source nearby
—14.6 m361 m—
60Heleneholm 4 (Heleneholmsskolan / Munkhätteskolan block)
Public building named vacant
35,262 m²—815 m—
58Högaholmsskolan (Folkvisan 2), Lindängen
Public building named vacant
5,960 m²—1,971 m—
51Mölledalsskolan 1 (old school building), Kirseberg
Public building named vacant
11,716 m²67.9 m1,528 mC fit only
50Margaretapaviljongen
On public land · 1 other source nearby
—14.7 m721 m—
48Behandlingen 1, Sege Park (building 30)
Public building named vacant
8,344 m²22.5 m1,821 mB fit only
48Mölletoftaskolan
On public land · 1 other source nearby
—13.4 m1,516 m—
48Rådhuset
On public land · 1 other source nearby
——308 m—
48Klockspelet
On public land · 1 other source nearby
——294 m—
41Kv. Heleneholm / Munkhätteskolan / Heleneholmskolan
On public land · 1 other source nearby
——823 m—

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

Sege Park and Segevång (former Östra sjukhuset campus)

Two of the six largest vacant city premises are here (building 30 at Sege Park and Segevångsskolan), in a district the City is turning into homes and where older buildings are part of the land allocations.

  • Behandlingen 1 (Sege Park): vacant, SEK 5 million a year, under investigation
  • Pupillen 3 (Segevångsskolan): vacant, SEK 3 million a year, under investigation

Risk: The City has not said what will happen; the investigations may end in demolition or in reuse for its own needs.

1 source

Heleneholm and Lindängen (school blocks)

Heleneholm 4 is the City's largest vacant premises by cost (SEK 8 million a year) and Högaholmsskolan in Lindängen is evacuation space that returns to land development in 2026.

  • Heleneholm 4: 25,283 m² footprint on the Stadsfastigheter layer, under investigation
  • Folkvisan 2 (Högaholmsskolan): to be passed to land development

Risk: School buildings with large footprints but unknown vacant floor area; one is a temporary evacuation space.

1 source

Central Malmö: the Stadshuset (City Hall) and Kirseberg

The Municipal Executive Board's move in 2026 empties floors 5–7 of the City Hall, which the City is studying for other uses; Mölledalsskolan in Kirseberg stands empty until its replacement opens in 2029.

  • Sankt Knut 9 (Rådhuset): floors 5–7 vacant from 2026
  • Mölledalsskolan 1: vacant, SEK 6 million a year

Risk: Both are known to the City and likely to stay municipal; interest from the City's own departments competes.

1 source

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

Malmö stad — Serviceförvaltningen and Stadsfastigheter (vacant premises, "lokalbank")

Vacant city premises go into a premises bank that departments can use; when there is no municipal need the Service Department evaluates development or sale and checks whether plans and land-development projects can use the building. Twelve objects were submitted to the bank in early 2025 for entry in 2026 (three preschools, three school premises, City Hall floors, two premises in the Flensburg area, one in Augustenborg and a youth club at Kirsebergs kulturhus). Contact Stadsfastigheter early about the six largest.

1 source
City agency

Malmö stad — Stadsbyggnadskontoret (detailed plans) and land allocation

The City has a limited amount of land to sell or lease for businesses and runs land allocations (markanvisningar) through its urban-development pages; 161 detailed plans were in preparation. A co-operative needing a change of use should apply for a planbesked (the first stage in the plan layer).

1 source

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-04-22
    Central Malmö office vacancy at 14.1%

    Citymark: up from 12.7% in autumn 2025, mainly in older stock; just over 70,000 m² let in 2025.

    1 source
  2. 2025-06-16
    Premises-supply plan 2026–2035 names the six largest vacant premises

    Heleneholm 4, Sankt Knut 9, Mölledalsskolan 1, Behandlingen 1, Pupillen 3 and Folkvisan 2 hold about 60% of a vacancy cost of SEK 54 million a year.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

15 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 API29Live
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 download76 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 API43Live
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 research6Live
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)
Properties managed by Stadsfastigheter (the City's property office), with names and addresses
Malmö stad — Serviceförvaltningen, Stadsfastigheter (public ArcGIS map server)
Open API573Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the public map service; used with credit to Malmö stad
Detailed plans in preparation (pågående planer)
Malmö stad — Stadsbyggnadskontoret (SEPlan)
Open API161Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the public map service; used with credit to Malmö stad, SBK
Office buildings mapped in OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API119Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Brownfield land (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API17Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • Malmö publishes no vacancy register and no layer of empty buildings: the six largest vacant premises are named in the premises-supply plan only (March 2025), and the plan does not say how many square metres stand empty or which floors.
  • The open Primärkartan (CC0) has building outlines with only a public/non-public type, not use; Lantmäteriet's register needs an account and API key. Floor area comes from the Global Building Atlas only.
  • The Stadsfastigheter layer shows properties and blocks, not whether they are in use; its licence is not stated on the public map service.
  • The City does not list vacant premises itself — its business page points to Objektvision and other brokers (Objektvision answers with a human check, so no listing was read).
  • No open orthophoto service was found for Malmö, so building cards show Esri's World Imagery instead.

Know an empty building we have missed?

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

Aarhus, Denmark16empty buildings on recordBerlin, Germany1,875empty buildings on recordBremen, Germany205empty buildings on recordBydgoszcz, Poland276empty buildings on recordCopenhagen, Denmark43empty buildings on recordGdańsk, Poland415empty buildings on recordGothenburg, Sweden23empty buildings on recordHamburg, Germany524empty buildings on recordHannover, Germany197empty buildings on recordPoznań, Poland307empty buildings on recordStockholm, Sweden31empty buildings on recordSzczecin, Poland353empty buildings on record