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Nice

Nice has little spare office space — CBRE counts 37,000 m² available (a 4.7% vacancy rate) and 9,000 m² let in the first half of 2026 — and no published list of empty buildings. What it does publish is its public property for sale: the Métropole, the City and its social action centre list their buildings with each sale procedure on one site, among them a parking-and-office tower on boulevard Raimbaldi (in a three-phase consultation until the end of 2026), the former Carrefour Market on boulevard Gorbella (3,222 m², now allocated) and two villas offered "free of occupation". Since 2013, 54 permits have each created at least 300 m² of homes from offices, hotels, workshops and public buildings, and Cartofriches records 14 brownfields in the city with no project yet.
Vacant office space37,000 m²4.7% of the stock stands empty
Empty buildings on record461 confirmed
On the map360buildings and sites from 11 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: CBRE, first half of 2026, as reported by Le Journal des Entreprises — Nice Métropole: 37,000 m² of immediate supply and a 4.7% vacancy rate, 9,000 m² taken up in 37 transactions (Sophia Antipolis, outside the city: 102,000 m², 6.5%). 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.

There is no open list of empty buildings or homes: the national vacant-homes file (LOVAC) is restricted to public authorities, and no vacancy register is published.

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Check any building in Nice: 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
96Ensemble immobilier (tower for parking with attached offices, plot 620 m²; Métropole, urban-innovation call for projects)
Public building named vacant · parking tower and offices
2,300 m²7.6 m373 mA fit only
63Garage Et Carrosserie
Distressed or stranded (named) · friche commerciale
—13.3 m118 m—
56Garage Demonte
Distressed or stranded (named) · friche commerciale
—12.3 m784 m—
56Buanderie
Distressed or stranded (named) · friche industrielle
—8.6 m817 m—
53Usine De Produits De Désinfection, D'Hygiène Et Additifs De Fuel
Distressed or stranded (named) · friche industrielle
—21.3 m196 m—
539 Rue Emma Et Philippe Tiranty
Distressed or stranded (named)
—15.2 m499 m—
5075 Boulevard René Cassin
Distressed or stranded (named) · 2 other sources nearby
—4.9 m893 m—
48Pôle de loisirs (former supermarket owned by the Ville)
Public building named vacant · former supermarket
3,222 m²—1,487 m—
4622 Boulevard Jean Baptiste Vérany
Distressed or stranded (named)
—8.3 m685 m—
461 Rue Du Chanoine Bailet
Distressed or stranded (named)
—3.2 m853 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

Centre — Gare Thiers, Jean Médecin and Libération

The business core: more than a third of the city’s tall service buildings and nearly a third of its conversion permits lie within about 800 m of Jean Médecin, together with the Métropole’s Raimbaldi tower and the SNCF Réseau land at Gare Thiers.

  • 62 of the 166 service buildings of four storeys or more without homes lie within about 800 m of the Thiers station (BD TOPO)
  • 17 of the 54 conversion permits since 2013, among them 3,508 m² at 20 avenue Georges Clemenceau and 1,997 m² at 5 avenue Durante (Sitadel)
  • 2,300 m² Raimbaldi tower and 17,091 m² of SNCF Réseau land at Gare Thiers (sales site; Cartofriches)

Risk: Land values are the highest in the city and the two biggest public sites are in consultations run for developers; a co-op would have to join a team already in the process.

4 sources

Port, Carabacel and Vieux-Nice

A tight historic quarter where small offices have already been turned into homes: 16 conversion permits since 2013 lie within about 900 m of the port, for instance 1,333 m² at 38 rue Ribotti and 1,175 m² at 7 rue de la Préfecture.

  • 16 of the 54 conversion permits since 2013 within about 900 m (Sitadel)
  • 39 service buildings of four storeys or more without homes within the same radius (BD TOPO)
  • Seven City and CCAS flats listed for sale in Vieux-Nice, most now allocated or sold (sales site)

Risk: Listed and protected fabric, narrow buildings and very high prices; the City and its CCAS also sell flats here one by one (the sales site has listed seven in Vieux-Nice, most now allocated or sold).

3 sources

Nice Ouest — Arénas, airport and Méridia

Where the city has put its newer business and industrial land: 31 tall service buildings and four brownfields within about 1.5 km, including ZAC Méridia lot 2.5a, listed with no project.

  • 31 service buildings of four storeys or more without homes (BD TOPO)
  • Four Cartofriches sites, among them ZAC Méridia lot 2.5a (11,651 m², EPA Éco-Vallée, no project)
  • Three conversion permits since 2013 (Sitadel)

Risk: The brownfields are plots and former industrial land held by the public development agency EPA Éco-Vallée or by companies, not empty buildings; conversion permits are few (three).

3 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

Métropole, City and CCAS — property sales by call for interest

The three bodies sell through one site, "Tous les biens de la ville de Nice, du CCAS et de la Métropole". Each file carries plans, surveys and a consultation rule. The Gorbella and Orangers sales were calls for interest with set deadlines (Gorbella: 5 September 2025, extended to 3 October); the villas were ranked on price and project quality. A housing co-operative can answer alone or with a social landlord.

2 sources
City agency

Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur — appel à projets urbains et innovants

For its larger buildings the Métropole runs a competitive dialogue for developers, architects and operators, in phases with a data room and workshops (Raimbaldi: launched 15 September 2025, final offers 31 December 2026). A co-op would join a team before phase one closes; for later calls, read the next règlement for the date of the first phase.

1 source
Allocation rule

State and its companies — public land for public-sector housing (law of 29 June 2026)

Law no. 2026-553 lets the authority depart from a local plan’s destination rules for housing projects on land held by a public body or public company, if at least half the homes go to public agents or public-service employees. SNCF Réseau’s Gare Thiers land and the State’s offices in Nice (23 in the 2021 inventory) are the kind of holdings it covers.

2 sources

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-07-17
    Office lettings at a standstill in Nice

    Only 9,000 m² of offices were let in Nice Métropole in the first half of 2026 (37 transactions) against 37,000 m² available (CBRE).

    1 source
  2. 2026-07-03
    New law on housing in public buildings

    Law no. 2026-553 of 29 June 2026 creates article L. 152-6-11 of the Code de l’urbanisme: on land held by a public body, housing projects may depart from the plan’s destination rules, with at least half the homes reserved for public agents.

    1 source
  3. 2026-01-13
    A disused building facing the Gare Thiers tram stop

    A candidate in the 2026 municipal election called a disused building in front of the Gare Thiers tram stop emblematic of Nice’s housing problem and proposed that the City pre-empt empty buildings; she gave no owner and no figures beyond a claim of 5,000 empty homes.

    1 source
  4. 2026
    20,668 private homes empty, 5,645 for two years or more

    Cerema's LOVAC file (tax records) counts 20,668 private homes vacant on 1 January 2025, 5,645 of them for two years or more, against 222,584 private homes. The 2026 edition changed method, so it runs above earlier years; the address-level file goes only to local authorities.

    1 source
  5. 2025-12-31
    Raimbaldi: first phase of the consultation closes

    Expressions of interest for the Métropole’s parking-and-office tower were due by 31 December 2025; the plan then foresaw selection in April–May 2026 and final offers by 31 December 2026.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

22 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 API35Live
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 download10 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Storeys and heights: BD TOPO buildings (IGN)
Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN)
Source : IGN – BD TOPO®. Recorded storeys (nombre_d_etages) where given, else the eaves height (lowest roof above lowest ground).
Open API73 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab)
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 API37Live
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 research5Live
2026-10-09
Facts cited to their publishers
Listed buildings: Mérimée (monuments historiques)
Ministère de la Culture (Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine)
Buildings classés or inscrits as monuments historiques, wholly or in part (the part is named). A monument counts when its point lies in the record’s BD TOPO outline or on its façade (within 3 m).
Open downloadscoringLive
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab)
Year built: IGN BD TOPO buildings
Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN)
The date a building appeared (date_d_apparition, from the land tax files) of the BD TOPO building a record sits in.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab)
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)
Permits turning offices, shops and public buildings into homes (Sitadel, 2013–2026)
SDES (Ministry for Ecological Transition) — Sitadel, list of planning permits creating homes
Open download54Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
Disused sites with no project yet (Cartofriches)
Cerema — Cartofriches (sites référencés, edition 7 October 2026)
Open download14Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
Brownfields with a project, and unchecked former industrial sites (Cartofriches)
Cerema — Cartofriches (sites référencés, edition 7 October 2026)
Open download8Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
Service buildings of four storeys or more with no homes (IGN BD TOPO)
IGN – BD TOPO, via the Géoplateforme
Open API166Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
State-owned offices and administrative buildings (State property inventory, 2021)
DGFiP — Direction de l'immobilier de l'État, Parc de l'immobilier de l'État au 31/12/2021 (data.economie.gouv.fr)
Open API23Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
State buildings handed back to the State's property service for disposal (State property inventory, 2021)
DGFiP — Direction de l'immobilier de l'État, Parc de l'immobilier de l'État au 31/12/2021 (data.economie.gouv.fr)
Open API9Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
State land recorded as wasteland (State property inventory, 2021)
DGFiP — Direction de l'immobilier de l'État, Parc de l'immobilier de l'État au 31/12/2021 (data.economie.gouv.fr)
Open API5Live
2026-10-09
Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
Buildings the City, its welfare office (CCAS) and the Métropole offer for sale
Ville de Nice / Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur — immobilier.nicecotedazur.org
Open download4Live
2026-10-09
not stated — credited to the publisher

What this radar cannot see yet

  • There is no open list of empty buildings or homes: the national vacant-homes file (LOVAC) is restricted to public authorities, and no vacancy register is published.
  • Building safety orders (péril, mise en sécurité) are individual acts: no list was found on the City’s or the Métropole’s open-data or legal-notice pages (9 Oct 2026), unlike Bordeaux, Marseille or Nantes.
  • Live disposals of State property (cessions.immobilier-etat.gouv.fr) answer "Access Denied" (403) to automated requests; the open State inventory is a stock list from 2021 with no occupancy field.
  • The Métropole’s property site has only a handful of live or recent listings, and its search page returned an error to automated requests, so listings were read one by one by number; no City list of vacant buildings was found.
  • The conversion-permit and brownfield files say what may be built or what is disused, not who owns a building or whether it stands empty today.

Know an empty building we have missed?

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

Bordeaux, France167empty buildings on recordGenoa, Italy174empty buildings on recordLille, France52empty buildings on recordLyon, France44empty buildings on recordMarne-la-Vallée, France38empty buildings on recordMarseille, France468empty buildings on recordMilan, Italy504empty buildings on recordMonaco, Monaco1empty buildings on recordMontpellier, France23empty buildings on recordNantes, France43empty buildings on recordParis, France54empty buildings on recordStrasbourg, France26empty buildings on recordToulouse, France60empty buildings on recordTurin, Italy98empty buildings on record