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Munich

Munich is the only one of the five radar cities with an agency whose job is turning empty offices into homes, and it wants five pilot projects running by the end of 2026. Office vacancy stands at about 1.86 million m², more than half of it older stock outside the city centre. The public buildings that stand empty mostly belong to the city or the Freistaat and are heading for sale or demolition.
An empty building in Munich with homes, balconies and neighbours drawn onto it in ink
Vacant office space1.86 million m²8% of the stock stands empty
Of which older stock1.05 million m²The realistic pool for conversion
On the map540buildings and sites from 6 open sources
Homes potential≈ 4,252if 30% of empty offices converted

Office figures: BNP Paribas Real Estate, 30 June 2026 (market area as BNP defines it, including the surrounding region); older stock = total vacancy minus BNP’s "modern" vacancy. Homes: our economic model’s conversion engine. Map built 2026-10-06.

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The map

Switch layers on by the question you are asking. Every point comes from a public record, an open dataset or a cited report; open one to see where it comes from and what the data cannot tell us.

Bavaria’s open 3D building data does not identify offices: in the city-centre tile 52% of buildings have no specified function and no office code appears, so office stock comes from OpenStreetMap.

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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.

ScoreBuildingFloor areaStationActions
68Seeriederstraße 18a
Public building named vacant · 1 other source nearby
2,004 m²252 m
67Einsteinstraße 42
Public building named vacant · 1 other source nearby
1,916 m²223 m
58ZerwirkgebäudePlans announced
Public building named vacant
—173 m
58BImA offices, Neumarkter StraßeNot confirmed yet
Public building named vacant
—431 m
58BImA offices, Landsberger Straße 122Not confirmed yet
Public building named vacant
—336 m
52Kaufingerstraße 26
Public building named vacant
437 m²249 m
52Former savings-bank branch, Weyprechtstraße 86
Public building named vacant
400 m²243 m
51Manzingerweg 3
Public building named vacant
300 m²406 m
43Rosenheimer Straße 250
Public building named vacant · 1 other source nearby
192 m²721 m
36Ten TowersPlans announced
Distressed or stranded (named)
69,060 m²283 m

Homes standing empty

Of 132 Leerstandsmelder reports on the map, 126 sit in a building we can identify — 71 of them homes. Most are single flats or buildings below co-op scale. These are whole buildings of flats that people report empty, ranked by a reactivation score: co-op scale, whether the whole building is empty, how recent the report is, location and land. A building of flats needs no change of use. Reports are public and not checked by us — each card links to its entry on Leerstandsmelder.

ScoreBuildingFloor areaReportedActions
93Occamstraße 1Confirmed empty
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Whole building
1,144 m²Jul 2024
93Rablstraße 43Confirmed empty
Apartment building · 5 storeys · Whole building
1,805 m²Jul 2024
79Neumarkter Straße 1
Apartment building · 2 storeys · Whole building
880 m²Jul 2024
75Fliegenstraße 12
Apartment building · 3 storeys · Whole building
762 m²Jul 2024
66Plinganserstraße 56aNot confirmed yet
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
1,796 m²Jul 2024
63Schwanthalerstraße 57
Apartment building · 7 storeys · Whole building
2,499 m²Jul 2024
58Nymphenburger Straße 105
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
1,220 m²Oct 2024
58Nymphenburger Straße 139Not confirmed yet
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
2,692 m²Feb 2026
58Klenzestraße 1
Apartment building · 6 storeys · Extent not stated
1,188 m²May 2025
58Sankt-Martins-Platz 6Not confirmed yet
Apartment building · 6 storeys · Extent not stated
1,596 m²Feb 2025
58Agnesstraße 48
Apartment building · 5 storeys · Extent not stated · 2 records
2,315 m²May 2025
58Hermann-Lingg-Straße 4
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
1,068 m²Aug 2024
58Knorrstraße 69
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
1,036 m²Aug 2026
58Rupprechtstraße 17
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
1,096 m²Feb 2026
58Großhesseloher Straße 23
Apartment building · 3 storeys · Extent not stated
2,007 m²Jul 2025

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

Neuperlach

The largest pipeline of office transformations in Munich, on 1970s–80s office stock with high achievable rents.

  • Fritz District: two office complexes on Fritz-Schäffer-Straße becoming a mixed quarter with about 325 flats
  • Otto-Hahn-Ring: the former Siemens staff car park, 7.2 ha, for about 750 homes
  • Achievable peak office rent €21.00/m² (Knight Frank, Q4 2025)

Risk: Private developers aim at owner-occupied flats, and one of them (Pandion, with 133 condominiums at Alexisquartier) is now insolvent.

4 sources

Berg am Laim

Home to the Ten Towers, the city’s showcase for its "Büro zu Wohnen" strategy.

  • Ten Towers: about 69,060 m², largely empty since Telekom left in 2022 (owner Wealthcap)
  • A council amendment proposes about 40% of the converted space for apprentices
  • BImA marked a federal office site on Neumarkter Straße "sell" (2023 list)

Risk: The towers are privately owned and date from 2002–05, younger than the stock the research rates as the best fit for a cooperative.

4 sources

Obersendling (Stadtgebiet Süd–Südwest)

The highest submarket vacancy in Munich and a large pipeline of new office space still looking for tenants.

  • Stadtgebiet Süd–Südwest office vacancy 13.6% at mid-2026 (Cushman & Wakefield)
  • The city’s own offer layer lists Sugar Valley (Boschetsrieder Straße 129) and Tölzer Straße 40 at 160,000 m² each
  • Pandion’s Isarbelle project here (16 storeys, 68 flats) is in insolvency

Risk: The evidence is supply-side: it shows offices on offer, not buildings standing empty.

3 sources

Maxvorstadt and Altstadt — state and city buildings

Central buildings owned by the city, the Freistaat or church bodies that stand empty while their future is decided.

  • Former Gesundheitshaus, Dachauer Straße 90: almost 9,000 m², empty since 2016, demolition planned in the medium term
  • Karlstraße 20 and 22: Freistaat buildings empty for years, 25 staff flats planned by Stadibau
  • Klinik des Diakoniewerks München-Maxvorstadt (87 beds) closed on 1 January 2025

Risk: Most are heading for demolition, sale or transfer to state staff housing, and the city declines to list its empty buildings.

4 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
Allocation rule

City plot tenders for cooperatives

20–40% of plots in large new areas are reserved for cooperatives and Mietshäuser-Syndikat projects, always on Erbbaurecht. Coming up: Zschokkestraße WA 3 West in Laim (about 194 homes), Lerchenauer Straße WA 2 (about 87) and Neufreimann MU 1(11). These are new-build plots; no existing buildings are offered yet.

1 source
Public owner

Kommunalreferat and the Freistaat Bayern (IMBY)

The city declined to list its empty buildings in January 2026, citing half its property-manager posts unfilled; a location-strategy paper and a commercial vacancy report are due in 2026. The Freistaat is selling the Zerwirkgebäude, empty since 2019. Ask for specific buildings before they reach sale or demolition.

3 sources
Allocation rule

Bau-Turbo consent (§246e BauGB)

Munich grants Bau-Turbo consent only against a subsidy quota modelled on SoBoN; until 31 December 2026 that is 30% München Modell or 40% price-dampened rental. A cooperative that commits to cost rents meets it by design. The Bau-Turbo cannot carry a real housing-plus-commerce mix.

1 source
Public owner

BImA, through the city’s first-refusal right

BImA’s 2023 list marks the federal office site on Neumarkter Straße for sale, and the city names BImA’s former US housing at Perlacher Forst as a Bau-Turbo site for about 1,000 staff homes. The €35,000 discount per social flat also works on Erbbaurecht and can be passed on to a cooperative.

3 sources
Subsidy

KfW 266 "Gewerbe zu Wohnen" (federal) and Bavaria’s "Leerstand jetzt WOHNEN"

Since 1 July 2026 KfW pays 30% of eligible costs, up to €30,000 per new flat, for converting offices, shops and similar buildings; Effizienzhaus 85 EE and 10 years of residential use. Cooperatives are not named explicitly among applicants, so check the KfW Merkblatt. The Umbauagentur also points to the Bavarian pilot programme.

2 sources

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-08-20
    Knorr-Bremse-Areal plan in force

    B-Plan 2142 for about 620 homes on 12.8 ha, 30% subsidised plus 10% price-dampened; construction expected from 2027.

    1 source
  2. 2026-08-10
    Pandion files for insolvency

    Its Munich projects include Alexisquartier in Neuperlach (133 condominiums) and Isarbelle in Obersendling (68 flats).

    2 sources
  3. 2026-08-01
    Demolition permit under housing protection dropped

    Munich approved the demolition of 1,018 homes in 2025; its new housing-protection by-law drops the separate demolition permit under certain conditions, narrowing that early warning.

    1 source
  4. 2026-07-22
    Galeria Rotkreuzplatz under review

    The Rotkreuzplatz store is among 33 Galeria is reviewing, with further closures planned.

    1 source
  5. 2026-07-13
    Umbauagentur "Büro zu Wohnen" proposed

    An agency with 12 posts that approaches owners of empty offices was proposed in the city council, with five pilot projects due in 2026.

    2 sources
  6. 2026-01-27
    City declines to list its empty buildings

    The Kommunalreferat answered a councillor only in general terms; half its property-manager posts are unfilled and the next commercial vacancy report is due in the second half of 2026.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

8 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
Current vacancies (city GeoServer)
Landeshauptstadt München, Referat für Arbeit und Wirtschaft
Open API15Live
2026-10-06
Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung 2.0
Office and commercial space on offer (city economic department)
Landeshauptstadt München, Referat für Arbeit und Wirtschaft
Mostly leases in projects — a forward sign of oversupply, not a list of empty buildings.
Open API97Live
2026-10-06
Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung 2.0
Forced auctions of commercial property (zvg-portal)
Justizportal des Bundes und der Länder
Non-residential objects only; shown until the hearing date. Hamburg courts do not publish here.
Open API3Live
2026-10-06
Official public notice (§ 39 ZVG)
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API269Live
2026-10-06
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-06
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-06
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. From a one-time copy of 4 October 2026 — the API is not fetched, as it disallows automated agents.
Asking for permission132Live
2026-10-06
Credited to Leerstandsmelder.de; asking for permission
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
EHC research24Live
2026-10-06
Facts cited to their publishers
Commercial listings (ImmoScout24 / immowelt)
Scout24 / AVIV
Blocked to automated access; we do not work around that. Request drafted in docs/reuse-radar/outreach/.
Asking for permission0PendingProprietary — API or data partnership requested

What this radar cannot see yet

  • Bavaria’s open 3D building data does not identify offices: in the city-centre tile 52% of buildings have no specified function and no office code appears, so office stock comes from OpenStreetMap.
  • Land values are not open in Bavaria, so the radar cannot show the gap between residential and office land value here.
  • The city keeps no public list of its empty buildings, and its contamination register is open only to owners and people they authorise.
  • Leerstandsmelder reports are public reports, not checked by EHC, and carry no end date — the map shows those made since 2016, each linked to its entry on leerstandsmelder.de.

Know an empty building we have missed?

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