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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.
An empty building in Malmö with homes, balconies and neighbours drawn onto it in ink
Empty buildings on record
19
from 9 open sources
Vacant office space
14.1%
of the office stock
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.

Empty buildings in Malmö

One point per building, from public records, open data and cited reports. Filter by type, size and how sure the evidence is; open one to see who says so and whether it could become homes.

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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2 more buildings in Malmö reported in the news, not yet on the map

The articles do not give an address we could place, so these have no pin yet. From news reports, summed up in our own words with a link to each article — not checked on site by EHC.

  • Kvarteret Bryggeriet — reported demolition planned · formerly mixed use · owner: NyfosaMost of the Bryggeriet block by Seved, including a go-kart track and a supermarket, is being cleared for a greener neighbourhood. Sydsvenskan (monthly sitemaps) (2025-05-27)
  • Övergiven kontorsbyggnad på Johanneslust — reported conversion planned · formerly office · owner: MKB Fastighets ABMKB will turn an abandoned office building in Johanneslust into co-housing with fifteen small flats and large shared spaces. Sydsvenskan (monthly sitemaps) (2025-12-14)

Where conversion makes sense, and who to talk to

The districts where empty space, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together, and the owners and programmes that open a door. 14.1% of the office stock stands empty (the floor area is not published).

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

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-04-22Central 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. 2025-06-16Premises-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 what we cannot see

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.

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
Includes the library’s public lighthouse conversions (src/scripts/data/reuse/lighthouses.json), shown under "Already converting" with a link to their library page.
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
Buildings named in the news (each with its article)
Local and national press, read by EHC
Buildings the news reports empty, for sale or to let, to be demolished or being converted (src/scripts/data/reuse/news-building-leads.json; rules in src/lib/reuse/news-layer.ts). A report that names a building already on the map is shown on its card instead of a second point; one an open source contradicted, or that says the building is in use, is left out. Not checked on site.
EHC research2Live
2026-10-14
Facts with a link to the article; the one-line summary is ours — no article text is republished
Probable era: estimated from a street photo (Panoramax, Mapillary, Google Street View)
Panoramax and Mapillary contributors; Google Street View (research use agreed with Google, 14 Oct 2026); estimate by EHC with a vision model
Where no register dates a building: its era read from a Panoramax or Mapillary photo looking at it — Google Street View only where no open photo answers (scripts/reuse/estimate-photo-eras.ts), only when the building is clearly visible and the model is confident, and only as “before 1945” or “1945 or later” — the split it got right for 89% of buildings with a register year in Amsterdam and Paris, and 89% from Street View pictures alone (photo-eras/calibration.json). An estimate: a sentence in the conversion check, never points.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-14
Open photos CC BY-SA 4.0 or Licence Ouverte 2.0 (per picture); Street View read for research only, never stored or shown; only the estimated era is published, never a photo

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

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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.

Aarhus, Denmark18empty buildings on recordBerlin, Germany1,902empty buildings on recordBremen, Germany216empty buildings on recordBydgoszcz, Poland285empty buildings on recordCopenhagen, Denmark47empty buildings on recordGdańsk, Poland421empty buildings on recordGothenburg, Sweden23empty buildings on recordHamburg, Germany555empty buildings on recordHannover, Germany203empty buildings on recordPoznań, Poland314empty buildings on recordStockholm, Sweden39empty buildings on recordSzczecin, Poland355empty buildings on record