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Novi Sad

Novi Sad publishes no register of empty buildings; the last public count, from the City’s construction inspectorate, was 41 abandoned building sites and 53 abandoned buildings in 2015. What is documented by name: an unfinished building in Pašićeva street stalled since 1994, a City-owned former clinic closed for about fifteen years, a protected inn in the old core close to collapse, and the bankrupt Jugoalat factory in a western industrial zone now being re-planned. The radar adds the mapped office stock and OpenStreetMap’s abandoned-building tags; nothing here is a vacancy register.
An empty building in Novi Sad with homes, balconies and neighbours drawn onto it in ink
Empty buildings on record
52
from 4 open sources
Vacant office space
—
not yet measured
Homes potential
—
not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No Novi Sad office-vacancy figure was found (searched 15 Oct 2026); the CBRE and Cushman & Wakefield / CBS series cover Belgrade only. Map built 2026-10-16.

Empty buildings in Novi Sad

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.

No register of empty or abandoned buildings is published. The construction inspectorate’s list (41 sites and 53 buildings in 2015) was reported by number only; its addresses are not public.

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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.

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Old Core (Stari grad)

Several empty or unfinished buildings stand within a few hundred metres of each other in the protected historic centre: Pašićeva 19, the Bela lađa in Njegoševa and the former clinic in Vase Stajića.

  • Pašićeva 19 unfinished since 1994
  • Bela lađa empty for almost two decades, roof partly collapsed (Dec 2025)
  • Vase Stajića 38 closed since about 2009

Risk: Heritage protection, split or disputed ownership and pending cadastre proceedings slow every building down; one former clinic has already gone to the heritage institute.

3 sources

Western industrial zone — Futoški put and Jugoalat

A 22.35 ha former industrial zone between Futoški put, Bulevar Slobodana Jovanovića and Branislava Borote is being re-planned as a business district; the abandoned Jugoalat factory stands on 3.05 ha of it.

  • Early public review of the plan elaborate, Feb 2026
  • Jugoalat bought out of bankruptcy for over 1.2 billion dinars
  • Buildings up to 15 storeys allowed

Risk: The plan favours offices and shops: housing is capped at 30% of a parcel (50% on complexes over 1.5 ha), and the Jugoalat site belongs to a developer with its own scheme.

2 sources

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-06-17Former Health Centre in Njegoševa to be restored

    The heritage institute signed for the façade and roof of the former clinic at the corner of Njegoševa and Jovana Subotića (about 84.7 million dinars, 150 days) — one of the two long-empty clinics now has a user.

    1 source
  2. 2026-03-03City sells four ground-floor flats

    The City Administration for Property offered four flats of 91–134 m² in Novo naselje at €186,500–267,600; offers by 16 March.

    1 source
  3. 2026-02-02Western industrial zone goes to early public review

    The elaborate for the general regulation plan of 22.35 ha around Jugoalat proposes a business district with limited housing, buildings of up to 15 storeys and at least 40% green space.

    1 source
3 earlier signals
  1. 2025-12-09
    Bela lađa threatens to collapse

    Part of the roof of the protected inn at Njegoševa 5 has fallen in after almost two decades empty; the heritage institute waits for the owners to agree.

    1 source
  2. 2025-05-07
    City lets 16 business premises

    Premises of 5–350 m² at 16 locations, at 181–1,735 dinars per m², for trade, crafts, services and health care; offers by 14 May.

    1 source
  3. 2015-02-09
    Inspectorate counts 41 abandoned sites and 53 abandoned buildings

    The City’s construction inspectorate recorded 41 abandoned building sites and 53 abandoned buildings, 12 of them in suburban settlements, all judged a danger to life and health. No newer count was found.

    1 source

Sources, and what we cannot see

14 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 API63Live
2026-10-16
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-16
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 download95 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-16
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-16
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
2026-10-16
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
2026-10-16
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
2026-10-16
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 API69Live
2026-10-16
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
2026-10-16
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
2026-10-16
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
2026-10-16
Facts cited to their publishers
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 research0Live
2026-10-16
Facts with a link to the article; the one-line summary is ours — no article text is republished
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
2026-10-16
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
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
2026-10-16
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
Office buildings mapped on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API64Live
2026-10-16
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • No register of empty or abandoned buildings is published. The construction inspectorate’s list (41 sites and 53 buildings in 2015) was reported by number only; its addresses are not public.
  • The City has no open-data portal and no City datasets on data.gov.rs (checked 15 Oct 2026). Its lease and sale notices were read as news reports; the 16 premises of May 2025 are not on the map because their addresses were not published in the report.
  • The Republic Directorate for Property’s map of public-property buildings (gis.rdi.gov.rs) answers point lookups but refuses list queries, and it holds only Republic property — not the City’s or the Province’s — so it cannot be drawn as a layer.
  • No open orthophoto or building register was reachable: the Republic Geodetic Authority’s hosts (geosrbija.rs, ogc.geosrbija.rs, inspire.geosrbija.rs, geoportal.gov.rs) refused connections on 15 Oct 2026, as they did for Belgrade on 9 Oct. Floor areas come from the Global Building Atlas only.
  • No office-vacancy figure is published for Novi Sad.
  • Military property is left out by rule: the former “Arčibald Rajs” barracks on Futoški put, empty and on the Ministry of Defence’s disposal list, appears only as OpenStreetMap brownfield land.

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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 149 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

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