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Murcia

Murcia's empty space is mostly homes: the 2021 census counted 36,044 vacant homes out of 207,571 (17%) by the INE's electricity-based method, the highest share of the five cities in this round. What the City publishes is its own land — its geoportal lists 222 plots of the municipal land heritage (178 for housing) and 122 plots under cleaning orders — while the cadastre records 463 ruins (452 with no use recorded). The big stalled buildings are private or already promised: the Torre Norte skeleton (13 storeys, stalled since 2008, now cleared for about 120 market-price homes) and the Cárcel Vieja, which the City is converting itself.
Vacant office spaceNot yet measured
Empty buildings on record502and 1 more with an empty shop, flat or floor; of all 503, 464 confirmed
On the map2,055buildings and sites from 11 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No broker publishes an office vacancy rate for Murcia; the cadastre records 147 office buildings of 1,000 m² or more (about 1.13 million m² of gross floor area) but not whether they are let. 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.

No list of empty or unused municipal buildings is published; the City's inventory marks use (public use, public service, patrimonial) but not vacancy, and only 2 of its 17 "former school" records are patrimonial.

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Check any building in Murcia: 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
70office building, cadastral ref. 4660710XH6046S
Distressed or stranded (named) · office · 1 other source nearby
2,188 m²14.1 m1,201 mA fit only
63Plot under cleaning order SO-295
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
—6.8 m394 m—
55industrial building, cadastral ref. 30030A19800296
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial · 1 other source nearby
2,214 m²—2,958 m—
54industrial building, cadastral ref. 6093313XG5969S
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial · 1 other source nearby
2,109 m²———
53Torre Norte (13-storey concrete skeleton), Avenida Don Juan de Borbón
Stalled or insolvent project
5,344 m²15 m3,232 mA fit only
49industrial building, cadastral ref. 3137401XH6033N
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial · 1 other source nearby
1,634 m²—1,569 m—
48San Jose de la Vega
On public land · Residencial · 2 storeys · 3 other sources nearby
—9.8 m——
48Parcela 5 Manzana Ai de la Ua Iv del Plan Parcial ZM-ZN3
On public land · Residencial · 3 other sources nearby
—7.7 m3,095 m—
48Parcela 5 Manzana Ap de la Ua V del Plan Parcial ZM-ZN3
On public land · Residencial · 1 other source nearby
—9.3 m3,478 m—
48Plot under cleaning order SO-291
Distressed or stranded (named) · 4 other sources nearby
——144 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

Santiago y Zaraiche and the north (Avenida Don Juan de Borbón)

The two largest stalled buildings stand here — the old prison and the Torre Norte skeleton — beside the municipal housing plots of the CR-6 plan.

  • Cárcel Vieja: a 7,923 m² parcel in the City's inventory, built 1927
  • Torre Norte: 13 storeys built, 22 planned, stalled since 2008
  • Parcel 17 of block Ñ, unit III of Plan Parcial CR-6 (BORM, 11 Nov 2024)

Risk: Both already have a route: the prison is in a City-led heritage project, the tower in a market-price housing agreement.

3 sources

Historic centre (Plan Especial del Conjunto Histórico)

The last cinema of the historic centre, listed and closed since August 2019, shows the centre's stock of closed listed buildings and the pressure to convert them to commercial use.

  • Cine Rex closed August 2019, bought by Grupo Orenes in March 2026
  • On Hispania Nostra's Red List since 13 May 2025

Risk: A listed layout cannot be altered, and the owner has just announced its own plans.

2 sources

Outer barrios and pedanías (El Palmar, Cabezo de Torres, Sangonera, Beniaján)

Most of the City's housing land lies here: the municipal land layer lists 178 plots for housing, and the first eight to be tendered were in San José de la Vega, Santiago el Mayor, Barriomar, El Palmar, El Campillo, Sangonera la Verde and Cabezo de Torres.

  • 178 plots with housing use, about 31.6 hectares (municipal land layer, 2026)
  • Eight plots of 10,600 m² tendered in July 2026 for about 400 protected homes; bids closed 28 Sept 2026

Risk: Plots, not buildings — a co-op would build new, on land the City is selling for protected homes by tender.

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 Murcia — Estrategia Municipal de Vivienda y Suelo 2030 (municipal plots)

The City put eight municipal plots (10,600 m², about 400 protected homes) out to tender in July 2026 as the first step of a strategy of about 70 plots and more than 125,000 m² of buildable land in 26 districts; later phases are to be announced in stages. A co-op can watch the next tenders, bid alone or with a developer, and ask for plots reserved for cession-of-use models. The geoportal's land layer gives each plot's plan and information sheet.

1 source
Private owner

Owners of stalled private offices (planning agreement route)

The Torre Norte agreement shows how Murcia handles a stalled tertiary building: the City trades a change of use (offices to homes) for a payment of more than €2.2 million and the owner sells at market price. A co-op approaching the owners of other stalled or closed office and commercial buildings can propose the same change of use with an affordable-rent or co-operative condition in the agreement.

1 source

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-10-02
    Torre Norte cleared for homes after about 18 years

    The plenary approved an urban agreement changing the 22-storey tower from offices to about 120 free-market homes; the owner pays the City more than €2.2 million.

    1 source
  2. 2026-09-28
    Bids close on the first eight municipal plots

    The deadline for the July tender of eight plots for about 400 protected homes passed on 28 September; no award had been reported by 9 October.

    1 source
  3. 2026-03-12
    Cine Rex sold

    Grupo Orenes bought the listed cinema, closed since August 2019, and announced a reopening after a technical evaluation.

    1 source
  4. 2025-01-21
    Cárcel Vieja: demolition of the walls disputed

    The City's largely EU-funded project would demolish the outer walls and empty the interior for commercial use; a conservation group says it destroys the building's memorial value.

    1 source
  5. 2021-11
    Census 2021: 36,044 empty homes (17.4%)

    INE counted 156,916 main homes, 14,611 second homes and 36,044 empty homes (207,571 in all) in Murcia 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

21 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 API88Live
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 download8 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 download29 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 API424Live
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 research3Live
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)
Municipal land heritage plots for housing (Patrimonio municipal del suelo)
Ayuntamiento de Murcia — Geoportal (sitam.murcia.es ArcGIS Server), layer Parcelas_Patrimonio (Servicio de Patrimonio)
Open API176Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the Geoportal (legislación page) — shown with credit to the Ayuntamiento de Murcia (EHC decision, as for other Spanish municipal files)
Former school buildings held as patrimonial property (City inventory)
Ayuntamiento de Murcia — Geoportal (sitam.murcia.es ArcGIS Server), layer parcela_todos_2419 (inventario municipal de bienes inmuebles)
Open API2Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the Geoportal (legislación page) — shown with credit to the Ayuntamiento de Murcia (EHC decision, as for other Spanish municipal files)
Plots under a City cleaning order (limpieza de parcelas y solares)
Ayuntamiento de Murcia — Geoportal (sitam.murcia.es ArcGIS Server), layer Limpieza_de_Parcelas_y_Solares (Servicio de Disciplina Urbanística)
Open API115Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the Geoportal (legislación page) — shown with credit to the Ayuntamiento de Murcia (EHC decision, as for other Spanish municipal files)
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 API1Live
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 download463Live
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 download616Live
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 download147Live
2026-10-09
Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro)
Heritage at risk in Murcia — Hispania Nostra's Lista Roja
Hispania Nostra — Lista Roja del Patrimonio
Open download20Live
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"

What this radar cannot see yet

  • No list of empty or unused municipal buildings is published; the City's inventory marks use (public use, public service, patrimonial) but not vacancy, and only 2 of its 17 "former school" records are patrimonial.
  • The Region's housing portal (sivmurcia) classifies occupied and empty homes, but its public WFS exposes only building age, plots and social housing — no vacancy layer.
  • No municipal register of ruinous buildings or plots to be built is published on the geoportal; the cleaning-order layer (122 plots, January 2023) is the only plot-condition data.
  • The cadastre records 463 ruins (452 with no use code recorded) and 616 declined buildings of 300 m² or more: condition, not vacancy.
  • The geoportal and sitam.murcia.es disallow automated agents in robots.txt and state no licence; the layers are used under EHC's 8 Oct 2026 policy with credit to the Ayuntamiento de Murcia.
  • Empty homes are counted by municipality only (INE, 2021); there is no address-level layer.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Murcia 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 recordCórdoba, Spain294empty buildings on recordLas Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain181empty buildings on recordLisbon, Portugal179empty buildings on recordMadrid, Spain358empty buildings on recordMálaga, Spain1,929empty buildings on recordPalma, Spain139empty buildings on recordPorto, Portugal414empty buildings on recordSeville, Spain128empty buildings on recordToulouse, France60empty buildings on recordValencia, Spain840empty buildings on recordZaragoza, Spain279empty buildings on record