Office figures: No broker publishes a Naples office vacancy figure (searched 8 Oct 2026). 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 publishes no list of its empty or unused property; its open property list is the 2014 edition, with no use status and no coordinates.
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Naples: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98 | Fabbricato per attività produttiva Public building named vacant · Fabbricato per attività produttiva (industriale, artigianale o agricola) · 1 other source nearby | 5,000 m² | 3 m | 101 m | A fit only | |
| 98 | Fabbricato per attività produttiva Public building named vacant · Fabbricato per attività produttiva (industriale, artigianale o agricola) · 2 other sources nearby | 5,000 m² | 11.8 m | 49 m | A fit only | |
| 98 | Fabbricato per attività produttiva Public building named vacant · Fabbricato per attività produttiva (industriale, artigianale o agricola) | 5,000 m² | 1.9 m | 190 m | A fit only | |
| 88 | Istituto D'Arte di Napoli Public building named vacant · Istituto D'Arte di Napoli | 11,121 m² | 5.1 m | 286 m | A fit only | |
| 88 | Uff.giud.pace-Parte Rim. In Fase di RISTR.-V.ELA05 On public land · Ex Caserma Garibaldi - Via Foria · 1 other source nearby | 5,862 m² | 8.2 m | 445 m | A fit only | |
| 88 | Via Cosenz Enrico Generale 58/59/60 On public land · Scuola · 1 other source nearby | 7,722 m² | 15.3 m | 241 m | A fit only | |
| 88 | Via Gambardella Salvatore 19 On public land · Scuola · 2 other sources nearby | 4,020 m² | 15.4 m | 354 m | A fit only | |
| 88 | Via D'Alagno Lucrezia 16 On public land · Scuola · 3 other sources nearby | 4,500 m² | 14.6 m | 153 m | A fit only | |
| 88 | Via Plebiscito A Piscinola 38 On public land · Circolo-Associaz.-Centro Cult.; Scuola · 1 other source nearby | 6,455 m² | 13.2 m | 132 m | A fit only | |
| 88 | Via Pazzigno 2 On public land · Scuola · 5 other sources nearby | 4,848 m² | 15.5 m | 356 m | A fit only |
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
The densest cluster of State property, the Trinità delle Monache and Carbonara convents, and the most confiscated units.
Risk: Short-term letting has emptied the centre of residents; most public buildings are listed convents.
The empty Boscariello and Caretto barracks are the largest free State floor space in the city.
Risk: The State has earmarked the barracks for the police.
Former oil depots and factories, and small State buildings near the station that came to the State when a property company gave them up.
Risk: Contaminated land; the large sites wait for planned schemes.
The Canzanella barracks, earmarked for student housing in the university district, and City depots and villas moved into a development fund.
Risk: Posillipo sites are high-value and constrained; Bagnoli's former steelworks follow their own State programme.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
The State and the City signed a plan in December 2024 for nine State properties (over €600m), open to more State, City and other public buildings and to public-private partnerships; the State also lets empty buildings for 6–18 months while it plans (temporary use). A co-op can propose a housing use for a building added to the plan or bid for a temporary concession.
Resolution 446 of 27 May 2016 recognised seven empty public buildings that citizens had reopened — Villa Medusa, ex Lido Pola, the ex OPG, the Giardino Liberato, Santa Fede Liberata, the Scugnizzo Liberato and the ex Schipa school — as places of civic and collective use, after the ex Asilo Filangieri. A community that runs an empty public building can ask for the same recognition.
Homes and shops confiscated from organised crime pass to the City, which under article 48 of the anti-mafia code must list them and may assign them free of charge to non-profit bodies, including social co-operatives, for social use. The radar maps 132 addresses handed to public bodies.
The district council of the historic centre has asked twice (September 2024, March 2025) for an inventory of unused City premises to be given to non-profit bodies; no answer had come by March 2025. A co-op can ask the Municipalità to put named premises forward.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
The State's register lists 55 free or partly free buildings of 400 m² or more in Naples once monuments, cavities and basements are set aside; 13 are the Boscariello barracks.
Municipalità 2 renewed its September 2024 request for an inventory of abandoned City premises for social use.
The State and the City agreed to reuse barracks, convents and offices, including Boscariello, Carbonara and the Trinità delle Monache complex.
The Council conferred six properties (€43.6m) to an Invimit fund and ceded three former barracks to the State; the City owns about 67,000 units, 23,000 of them public homes.
The centre's district council links rising evictions to homes turned into short-term lets and asks for a municipal housing plan.
20 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 | 300 | 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 | 755 buildings sized | Live 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 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 | 133 | 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 | 8 | 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) |
| State buildings recorded as free (Agenzia del Demanio) Agenzia del Demanio — Geoportale, Immobili dello Stato | Open API | 55 | Live 2026-10-09 | No licence stated on the map service — credited to Agenzia del Demanio (its open-data files are CC BY 3.0 IT); shown under the 6 Oct 2026 licence decision |
| State-owned buildings of 1,000 m² or more in use (Agenzia del Demanio) Agenzia del Demanio — Geoportale, Immobili dello Stato | Open API | 169 | Live 2026-10-09 | No licence stated on the map service — credited to Agenzia del Demanio (its open-data files are CC BY 3.0 IT); shown under the 6 Oct 2026 licence decision |
| State buildings offered to investors (Agenzia del Demanio, Portale Investitori) Agenzia del Demanio — Crea valore, investi con noi (investor portal) | Open API | 3 | Live 2026-10-09 | No licence stated on the map service — credited to Agenzia del Demanio (its open-data files are CC BY 3.0 IT); shown under the 6 Oct 2026 licence decision |
| Property confiscated from organised crime and handed to public bodies (ANBSC) Agenzia nazionale per l'amministrazione e la destinazione dei beni sequestrati e confiscati (ANBSC) — OpenRE.G.I.O. | Manual download | 132 | Snapshot 2026-10-09 | IODL 2.0 (Italian Open Data Licence, linked from the portal) |
| City-owned schools, churches and public buildings (Comune di Napoli property list) Comune di Napoli — Patrimonio immobiliare (list of City property under d.lgs. 33/2013) | Manual download | 620 | Snapshot 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 |
| OpenStreetMap: land mapped as brownfield OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | 51 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
| Public buildings their owner records as not used (Treasury property census 2023) Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze, Dipartimento dell'Economia — Rilevazione dei beni immobili delle amministrazioni pubbliche (data at 31 Dec 2023) | Manual download | 48 | Snapshot 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 (stated on the MEF open-data page; reuse with the source credited) |
| Public flats, shops and stores their owner records as not used (Treasury property census 2023) Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze, Dipartimento dell'Economia — Rilevazione dei beni immobili delle amministrazioni pubbliche (data at 31 Dec 2023) | Manual download | 2,375 | Snapshot 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 (stated on the MEF open-data page; reuse with the source credited) |
Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Naples that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.
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.