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Rome

Rome has no public register of empty buildings, but the State publishes which of its 2,900 properties in the city stand free, and the City maps its offices, barracks, hospitals and industrial complexes in its general plan. Lazio is the only region with a law that lets a co-op recover an empty public building with its members' own work (autorecupero), though Rome has not opened a new call since the first projects.
An empty building in Rome with homes, balconies and neighbours drawn onto it in ink
Vacant office space7.8%of the office stock stands empty (the floor area is not published)
Empty buildings on record1,114and 8 more with an empty shop, flat or floor; of all 1,122, 24 confirmed
On the map4,695buildings and sites from 12 open sources
Homes potential≈ 2,764if 30% of empty offices converted

Office figures: BNP Paribas Real Estate, Q2 2026 — 7.8% of Rome's offices vacant, 1.1% in the CBD, 8.9% in Greater EUR and 18.0% in the periphery; the report gives no vacant floor area as a figure. Homes: our economic model’s conversion engine. 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.

The City's open-data portal (dati.comune.roma.it, 365 datasets, read 8 Oct 2026) publishes nothing on City property, empty buildings or confiscated property; www.comune.roma.it answers automated requests with a security block, so the City's own lists were not read.

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Check any building in Rome: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?

Named empty by owners and public records

2 buildings that the owner or a public register records as empty — whole buildings of at least 1,500 m² whose plans suit homes on paper (band A in our conversion check), not ruins and not let for interim use. Each row says who records it empty and when. We have not been to them, and a record can be out of date; those we have confirmed empty ourselves are marked as tour stops.

BuildingFloor areaRecorded empty byActions
Ex Caserma Donato
Former army telecoms depot, being converted for the Carabinieri · Via del Trullo 533
≈ 4,772 m²State buildings offered to investors (Agenzia del Demanio, Portale Investitori)
Owner's list · Agenzia del Demanio · register read 9 Oct 2026
Ex Casa del Fascio PortuenseAs a partner
1930s former Casa del Fascio, partly squatted · Via Portuense, 549
≈ 2,496 m²State buildings offered to investors (Agenzia del Demanio, Portale Investitori)
Owner's list · Agenzia del Demanio · register read 9 Oct 2026

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
91Edificio scolastico
Public building named vacant · Edificio scolastico (es.: scuola di ogni ordine e grado, università, scuola di formazione)
3,667 m²13.2 m682 mA fit only
88Dipartimento P.s. (ex Caserma Ferdinando di Savoia) - Edificio B
Public building named vacant · Dipartimento P.s. (ex Caserma Ferdinando di Savoia) · 4 storeys
9,710 m²19.6 m279 mA works up to €2,000–2,250/m²
88Porzione del Palazzo delle Coppelle
Public building named vacant · Immobile In Uso al Senato della Repubblica Piazza delle Coppelle
4,236 m²12.3 m452 mA fit only
88Fabbricato Via Tripolitania 195 9/10 Piani
Public building named vacant · Locale Deposito Via Tripolitania 195 Interno 30 Piano S1
3,400 m²15 m221 mA fit only
88Fabbricato In Via Quintino Sella 41
Public building named vacant · Appartamento Piano Terzo Via Quintino Sella 41
6,790 m²14.2 m359 mA fit only
88Caserma Giacomo Medici - Fabbricato 1
On public land · Caserma Giacomo Medici-Scuola Comunale "baccarini" (costruita Su Area Demaniale) Via Sfor… · 7 storeys · 1 other source nearby
5,332 m²10.5 m277 mA works up to €2,000–2,250/m²
88Ospedali, case di cura, cliniche e assimilabili
Public building named vacant · Ospedali, case di cura, cliniche e assimilabili
3,605 m²8.3 m201 mA fit only
83Caserma Cavour - Fabbricato 5 - Struttura Parcheggi
Public building named vacant · "caserma Cavour" Via delle Milizie-Via Lepanto Viale Giulio Cesare e Via Vigliana
9,538 m²—150 m—
83Caserma Cavour - Fabbricato 3 - Edificio Sud (a)
Public building named vacant · "caserma Cavour" Via delle Milizie-Via Lepanto Viale Giulio Cesare e Via Vigliana
2,795 m²—150 m—
81Compendio Alloggi Marina - Fabbricato 1
Public building named vacant · Ippodromo di Tor di Quinto
5,184 m²15.6 m936 mA fit only

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

Centro storico, Esquilino and Castro Pretorio (Municipio I)

The densest cluster of State buildings recorded as free, and of offices, barracks and public-administration buildings in the City's plan.

  • 22 State records free or partly free (≥ 400 m²), about 112,000 m² gross
  • 135 State buildings of 1,000 m² or more in use
  • 509 special-type buildings in the Carta per la Qualità

Risk: Short-term letting and hotels compete for every central building; much of the free State space is in historic complexes with strict heritage rules.

2 sources

Flaminio, Tor di Quinto and Farnesina (Municipio XV)

Military lodgings and barracks buildings recorded as free at the Tor di Quinto compound, along with other State space in the north.

  • 21 State records free or partly free, about 195,000 m² gross (147,000 m² of it the Farnesina record)
  • Caserma Salvo d'Acquisto lodgings (about 15,300 m²) and two Navy lodging blocks recorded as free

Risk: The biggest 'free' record is the Farnesina, which is plainly in use — the flag needs checking building by building; military land is released slowly.

1 source

Ostiense and Garbatella (Municipio VIII)

Rome's old industrial riverside: the disused Mercati Generali, the former fair grounds and the gasworks quarter, close to Roma Tre university.

  • Ex Mercati Generali: about 9 ha of City land, disused since the early 2000s
  • Ex Fiera di Roma: 35,000 m² of homes planned, over 7,000 m² of it social housing
  • 99 special-type buildings in the Carta per la Qualità

Risk: The largest sites are already in funds' hands with student housing and private homes planned.

2 sources

EUR and the periphery office districts (Municipio IX and beyond)

Rome's office vacancy sits outside the centre: 8.9% in Greater EUR and 18.0% in the periphery, against 1.1% in the CBD.

  • Periphery office vacancy 18.0% (Q2 2026)
  • 8 State records free in Municipio IX, about 47,000 m² gross
  • 51 State buildings of 1,000 m² or more in use in Municipio IX

Risk: EUR's large office blocks are deep-plan and often let to public bodies; conversion needs a change of use under the general plan.

2 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
Allocation rule

Roma Capitale — autorecupero under Lazio regional law 55/1998

The City picks empty public buildings and assigns them by a call reserved for self-recovery co-ops: the City pays for the shell and shared parts, members renovate their own flats with a guaranteed loan that offsets their rent, and the building stays public. Six buildings (mostly former schools) house about 90 households; at the end of 2024 no new call was being prepared, so the route needs the City to name buildings again.

1 source
Public owner

Agenzia del Demanio (State property agency)

The Demanio offers State sites to public-private partnerships for social and student housing — Tor Vergata's 70,000 m² call closed on 30 June 2026. A co-op can join a bidder as the operator of the homes, or ask the Demanio about the buildings its own register records as free.

1 source
City agency

Roma Capitale — Department for housing policy

The City buys whole buildings for public housing rather than selling its stock: 1,040 homes from Fondazione Enasarco for about €250m, the first 336 signed on 30 December 2025. A co-op can offer to manage or recover buildings the City acquires but cannot let at once.

1 source
Public owner

ATER del Comune di Roma (regional public-housing company)

Tenants' unions count about 1,000 empty ATER homes in Rome while about 17,000 families wait. Empty units that need works are the natural object of a self-recovery or management agreement; ATER's own figures are not published.

1 source
Public owner

Agenzia del Demanio — investor portal and reuse scouting

Besides large public-private partnerships, the Demanio publishes 25 Rome properties it wants to reuse — forts, former barracks workshops, the ex IFO laboratories, former Case del Fascio, shops confiscated from organised crime — each with an intended use and its own call (concession, temporary use, lease). A co-op can answer a call or propose a use at the 'scouting' stage.

1 source

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-10-08
    25 State properties in Rome on the Demanio's investor portal

    The State lists 25 Rome properties for reuse; 16 of them coincide with buildings its own register records as free, which makes those 'free' flags credible.

    1 source
  2. 2026-07-16
    About 1,000 empty ATER homes, by a tenants' union count

    ASIA-USB puts empty ATER homes at about 1,000 against about 17,000 families on the waiting list; the figure is the union's own.

    1 source
  3. 2026-07
    Office vacancy 7.8%, 18% in the periphery

    Vacancy rose 20 basis points in the quarter; the CBD stays at 1.1% while the periphery reached 18.0%.

    1 source
  4. 2026-04-14
    Forlanini passes from the Region to the State

    A parliamentary question records the 2025 law moving the hospital, closed since 2015, to the State for a new Bambino Gesù hospital.

    1 source
  5. 2026-03-12
    State seeks partners for social housing at Tor Vergata

    The Demanio presented a 70,000 m² social and student housing scheme around the unfinished Città dello Sport; the partnership call ran to 30 June 2026.

    1 source
  6. 2025-12-30
    City buys 336 Enasarco homes, 702 more due in 2026

    Roma Capitale signed the first tranche of 1,040 homes bought for public housing, about €250m in all.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

21 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 API1,174Live
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 download1,631 buildings sizedLive
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 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 API760Live
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 download0Live
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 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 research7Live
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 APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
State buildings recorded as free (Agenzia del Demanio)
Agenzia del Demanio — Geoportale, Immobili dello Stato
Open API99Live
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 API430Live
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
Offices, public-administration, industrial, barracks, hospital and department-store buildings in the City's Carta per la Qualità
Roma Capitale — Dipartimento Programmazione e Attuazione Urbanistica (PRG 2008, Carta per la Qualità, via GeoRoma)
Open API1,297Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the GeoRoma OGC service (Fees and AccessConstraints 'none') — credited to Roma Capitale; shown under the 6 Oct 2026 licence decision
OpenStreetMap: land mapped as brownfield
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API63Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
State buildings offered to investors (Agenzia del Demanio, Portale Investitori)
Agenzia del Demanio — Crea valore, investi con noi (investor portal)
Open API22Live
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 download154Snapshot
2026-10-09
IODL 2.0 (Italian Open Data Licence, linked from the portal)
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 download33Snapshot
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 download647Snapshot
2026-10-09
CC BY 4.0 (stated on the MEF open-data page; reuse with the source credited)
Cultural heritage in danger in Rome — Italia Nostra's Lista Rossa
Italia Nostra APS — Lista Rossa dei beni culturali in pericolo
Open API9Live
2026-10-09
© Italia Nostra APS, no licence stated — only the name, the street, the list status and a link are kept (no descriptions or photos); credited to Italia Nostra

What this radar cannot see yet

  • The City's open-data portal (dati.comune.roma.it, 365 datasets, read 8 Oct 2026) publishes nothing on City property, empty buildings or confiscated property; www.comune.roma.it answers automated requests with a security block, so the City's own lists were not read.
  • The City's property map (MPIC) and its plan layers of City-owned, confiscated and returned property are not published to anonymous users on GeoRoma.
  • Confiscated property still managed by ANBSC (1,266 units in Rome) is published without addresses.
  • The State's 'free' flag is unreliable in Rome: it marks buildings plainly in use, so a point needs a second source or a desk check.
  • The aerial photo (AGEA 2020, Regione Lazio's geoportal) is not openly licensed: AGEA keeps all rights. It is shown for co-operative housing on Jonathan Imme's decision of 9 Oct 2026 and comes off on request.
  • Office vacancy is published by submarket, not by building.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Rome that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

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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.

Bari, Italy918empty buildings on recordBologna, Italy87empty buildings on recordCatania, Italy217empty buildings on recordFlorence, Italy71empty buildings on recordGenoa, Italy174empty buildings on recordLjubljana, Slovenia47empty buildings on recordMessina, Italy71empty buildings on recordMilan, Italy504empty buildings on recordMonaco, Monaco1empty buildings on recordNaples, Italy255empty buildings on recordNice, France46empty buildings on recordPalermo, Italy56empty buildings on recordTurin, Italy98empty buildings on recordVerona, Italy55empty buildings on recordZagreb, Croatia204empty buildings on record