Office figures: No broker or municipal figures for Plovdiv's office market were found (checked 9 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.
No list of empty, abandoned or municipal buildings is published: the municipal property register is not open data, and the city's GIS host (gis.plovdiv.bg) shows only a server default page.
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Plovdiv: 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.
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
A protected ensemble of early-20th-century tobacco warehouses a few minutes from the centre, partly gutted by the 2016 fire; a rare group of large, plain industrial floors next to the Kapana quarter.
Risk: Private owners, heritage protection and a blocked quarter; the only dated source found is from 2016, so today's state and plans are unknown.
Ten outbuildings of the university hospital that the Government lists as no longer needed, close to the centre and its transport.
Risk: Small, old buildings (the table gives 1901 and 1985 dates and calls their condition poor) on a working hospital site; the hospital may still use them.
A State plot of 32,120 m² with 15 single-storey production and storage buildings, listed as no longer needed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
Risk: Industrial halls on the northern edge, far from housing; preliminary list.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
Lets and sells municipal non-residential property by tender under the Municipal Property Act; the municipality's page "Procedures under the Municipal Property Act" carries the notices, but no register. A co-op can ask the Council for a whole building on a long lease in return for repair.
The Government's May 2025 programme lists State buildings in Plovdiv (hospital outbuildings, an agricultural-ministry estate, regional-administration units); a co-op can ask the Municipality to take one over under the same route Sofia's Council used in March 2026, or the holding ministry for a lease.
Houses and commercial premises forced onto the market are listed with a starting price; the court list for Plovdiv holds 93 properties, 19 in the city, of which four are houses or commercial premises.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
The Council of Ministers adopts a programme listing about 4,400 State properties as unneeded; 32 rows fall in Plovdiv, 18 of them outside defence and interior property.
Prosecutors order the burnt tobacco warehouses shored up under the Cultural Heritage Act; no later dated report was found.
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 | 56 | 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 | 53 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 | 74 | Live 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 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 | 5 | 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 the Government's 2025 programme lists as no longer needed Council of Ministers — Programme for exercising the State's rights over State properties (8 May 2025); table of the Ministry of Regional Development (MRRB), matched to the cadastre by Boyan Yurukov (opendata.yurukov.net) | Open download | 13 | Live 2026-10-09 | None stated — public information of the Council of Ministers' programme of 8 May 2025 (table published by the Ministry of Regional Development), cadastral matching by Boyan Yurukov; credited to both |
| State plots the Government's 2025 programme lists as no longer needed Council of Ministers — Programme for exercising the State's rights over State properties (8 May 2025); table of the Ministry of Regional Development (MRRB), matched to the cadastre by Boyan Yurukov (opendata.yurukov.net) | Open download | 3 | Live 2026-10-09 | None stated — public information of the Council of Ministers' programme of 8 May 2025 (table published by the Ministry of Regional Development), cadastral matching by Boyan Yurukov; credited to both |
| State premises (units in buildings) the Government's 2025 programme lists as no longer needed Council of Ministers — Programme for exercising the State's rights over State properties (8 May 2025); table of the Ministry of Regional Development (MRRB), matched to the cadastre by Boyan Yurukov (opendata.yurukov.net) | Open download | 2 | Live 2026-10-09 | None stated — public information of the Council of Ministers' programme of 8 May 2025 (table published by the Ministry of Regional Development), cadastral matching by Boyan Yurukov; credited to both |
| Houses, residential and commercial buildings on forced public sale (private enforcement agents) Bulgarian Chamber of Private Enforcement Agents — public register of sales (sales.bcpea.org) | Open download | 2 | Live 2026-10-09 | None stated (a statutory public notice board); credited to the Chamber of Private Enforcement Agents |
| Shops, offices and other premises on forced public sale (private enforcement agents) Bulgarian Chamber of Private Enforcement Agents — public register of sales (sales.bcpea.org) | Open download | 2 | Live 2026-10-09 | None stated (a statutory public notice board); credited to the Chamber of Private Enforcement Agents |
| Office buildings mapped on OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr) | Open API | 28 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
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The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.