Office figures: No office-market report with a Sarajevo vacancy rate was found (searched 9 Oct 2026); Sarajevo is not covered by the Belgrade MarketBeat series. 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 register or list of empty buildings is published for Sarajevo; the Canton’s draft tax does not define “unused” beyond exemptions, and the Prime Minister has floated electricity use as a test (Paragraf, 30 Sep 2026).
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Sarajevo: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
The tobacco factory in Pofalići stopped production in 2022 and is described as decaying; part is still used by companies of its owner.
Risk: Private owner (about 95% held by one foreign company), no redevelopment plan stated, and the reported mix of uses on site.
The municipality lets 903 premises totalling 76,286 m² in five rent zones; zone A (55 premises, 8,200 m²) carries the highest rents, and 838 premises sit in zones B–D.
Risk: Premises, not buildings, mostly let already; the draft leasing decision was out for debate until 29 Aug 2025.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
Cantonal bodies and companies must list their immovable property in the online register. Read on 9 Oct 2026 it held 1,155 property records for 147 holders; a co-operative can use it to find which public body holds a given building and ask that body whether it is unused.
Leases its business premises under a new decision (draft adopted 26 June 2025, debate to 29 August, presentation 12 September 2025) with zone rents from 3 to 120 KM per m² a month. A co-operative can ask for the premises that fall in zones D and E, where the minimum rent is 6 and 3 KM per m².
The tobacco factory’s owner is one foreign company that still lets part of the site; a co-operative would approach it for a lease or purchase of the idle halls once the draft tax on unused property (4–6 KM/m² a year) makes holding them costly.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
The Canton Government adopted a draft law with a flat 4–6 KM per m² a year (default 4), +200% on a second and +300% on a third property; revenue of 7–8 million KM a year is meant for housing building or rent subsidies. The Assembly must still adopt it and open at least 30 days of consultation.
Face.ba reports the closed Fabrika duhana Sarajevo complex as neglected, with rubbish around the site.
The Canton’s online register of movable and immovable property, launched in May, had immovable property entered for 152 of 224 obliged bodies; the public can view the part entered so far.
The municipality presented the draft decision on leasing its business buildings and premises on 12 September 2025 after a 60-day debate (27 June–29 August).
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.
| Source | Access | Records | Status | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | 62 | 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 | 69 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 | 45 | 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 | 1 | 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) |
| Office buildings mapped on OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr) | Open API | 100 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
| Brownfield land mapped on OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr) | Open API | 1 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
| Public bodies that hold immovable property in the Sarajevo Canton register (seat points) Vlada Kantona Sarajevo — Register of immovable property of the Canton (digitalnaplatforma.ks.gov.ba, layer “Subijekti”) | Open API | 119 | Live 2026-10-09 | No licence stated — shown with credit to the Government of Sarajevo Canton |
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