Office figures: No broker publishes an office vacancy rate for Palma; the cadastre records 240 office buildings of 1,000 m² or more (about 1.72 million m² of gross floor area) but not whether they are let. 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.
No list of empty or unused municipal buildings is published; the IDE Palma layers cover planning, infrastructure, schools and tourism, not property or condition.
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Palma: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | Ruin, cadastral ref. 0504502DD7800D Distressed or stranded (named) · 3 other sources nearby | 1,547 m² | 13.4 m | 508 m | B fit only | |
| 61 | residential building, cadastral ref. 1105608DD7810E Distressed or stranded (named) · residential · 1 other source nearby | 1,502 m² | 11.7 m | 853 m | A fit only | |
| 58 | Former prison of Palma (antigua presó) Public building named vacant | 8,081 m² | — | 1,439 m | — | |
| 39 | Ruin, cadastral ref. 07040A03100090 Distressed or stranded (named) · agriculture · 1 other source nearby | 2,180 m² | — | 2,573 m | — | |
| 37 | agriculture building, cadastral ref. 07040A05400083 Distressed or stranded (named) · agriculture · 1 other source nearby | 3,659 m² | 36.7 m | — | B fit only | |
| 34 | publicServices building, cadastral ref. 5667456DD7756H Distressed or stranded (named) · publicServices · 1 other source nearby | 1,645 m² | — | — | — | |
| 33 | Edificio GESA (Endesa's former Mallorca headquarters), seafront Stalled or insolvent project | 15,915 m² | 24.8 m | 1,458 m | A fit only | |
| 23 | Ruin, cadastral ref. 6485568DD6768E Distressed or stranded (named) | — | — | — | — |
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
Two of the island's largest unused public sites sit side by side: the old prison and the Son Busquets barracks.
Risk: Both are committed — the prison to a City scheme for essential workers, Son Busquets to a State housing plan stalled in public exposure.
The biggest recent public purchase of an empty building — the GESA tower — and a sealed commercial building in ruin proceedings lie on the same waterfront road.
Risk: GESA is planned for culture and innovation, not housing; Joan Miró 288 may be demolished for flats if declared in ruin.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
The City keeps the prison structure and will turn it into a municipal complex of 139 temporary homes for essential workers, managed by the City; the basic project is being contracted and construction is expected to take 18 months after the tender. A co-op can offer to manage or co-develop part of the long-stay units, or ask for a share reserved for cession-of-use households; rents and budget are still to be set.
SEPES owns the former barracks (about 11 hectares) and plans 831 affordable homes with €80.5 million from the Housing Ministry; the preliminary special plan was presented on 24 July 2024 and the City must put it to public exposure. A co-op can ask SEPES and the City for plots reserved for co-operative or cession-of-use schemes before the plan is fixed.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
The City's planning department approved opening a declaration-of-ruin file for the 1950 building (813 m²), sealed since October 2025; tenants contest it.
Squatters were removed on 11 June; the City announced a public complex for essential workers keeping the prison structure.
An open anonymous competition (€120,000 in prizes, deadline 1 April 2026) for a cultural and innovation complex on the seafront.
SEPES said Palma must put the preliminary special plan for 831 homes to public exposure; no works were reported.
INE counted 159,316 main homes, 6,521 second homes and 16,349 empty homes (182,186 in all) in Palma on 1 November 2021; the INE calls a home empty when it has no electricity contract or very low consumption.
17 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 | 98 | 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 | 4 buildings sized | Live 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 download | 80 buildings sized | Live 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 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 | 95 | 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 | 4 | 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) |
| Urban transformation areas for housing (PGOU 2021 "Model ciutat") Ajuntament de Palma — Instituto Municipal de Innovación (IMI), IDE Palma, layer urbanismo:actuaciones_transformacion_urbana | Open API | 89 | Live 2026-10-09 | No licence stated on the IDE Palma pages — shown with credit to the Ajuntament de Palma (EHC decision, as for other Spanish municipal files) |
| Buildings the cadastre records as ruined Dirección General del Catastro — INSPIRE Buildings (August 2026 release) | Open download | 42 | Live 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 download | 691 | Live 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 download | 240 | Live 2026-10-09 | Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro) |
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The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.