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Seville

Seville's asking rents jumped to €18.4 per m² a month in spring 2026, 42% more than a year earlier, and households now spend almost a third of their income on rent. Empty homes have moved out of the centre: the City's own 2022 index finds 6% of homes empty, under 4% in the old town but up to 10–16% in northern and eastern estates. The ways in run through public property — empty municipal premises, State land and barracks put up for sale — and through EMVISESA, the City's housing company, which buys empty and threatened buildings and has a plot set aside for co-operative housing.
An empty building in Seville with homes, balconies and neighbours drawn onto it in ink
Vacant office spaceNot yet measured
Empty buildings on record128and 75 more with an empty shop, flat or floor; of all 203, 164 confirmed
On the map504buildings and sites from 11 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No broker publishes a current office vacancy rate for Seville; Savills' 2024 report describes vacancy falling, an average rent of €10.36 per m² a month and an older stock that needs renovation. Map built 2026-10-10.

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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 list of empty municipal premises dates from 2017; no newer edition is published, so each building needs checking.

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

Named empty by owners and public records

A building 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 We have not been to them, and a record can be out of date; those we have confirmed empty ourselves are marked as tour stops.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
Plaza de Cuba 8 y 9 (con Acceso a Través del Portal 9)
· Estado — Patrimonio del Estado (Ministerio de Hacienda)
12,865 m²Central-state buildings held unassigned (Patrimonio del Estado)
Owner's list · Gobierno de España · 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
78Nave Industrial En Calle Antonio Maura Montaner (parcela K de la UA-SU-3)
Public building named vacant · Nave Industrial · 1 other source nearby
2,868 m²36.1 m449 mC fit only
73Pabellón de Chile
Public building named vacant · Edificio
8,427 m²—425 m—
66Oficina del Servicio de Emergencias Sociales
Public building named vacant · Edificio
—11 m972 m—
65Terreno de Casa En Calle Garcia Ramos, 23
Public building named vacant · Edificio · 1 other source nearby
1,730 m²8.6 m1,481 mA fit only
65Former Alfonso XIII barracks (Avenida de Jerez)
Public building named vacant
22,700 m²—761 m—
63Nave del Antiguo Garaje Laveran
Public building named vacant · Edificio
4,089 m²17.8 m1,496 mB fit only
62Cl. Alfredo Kraus Suelo Parcela 2A Gordales
Public building named vacant · Plot
46,903 m²—392 m—
59industrial building, cadastral ref. 5533023TG3453D
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial · 1 other source nearby
2,341 m²32.3 m633 mB fit only
58Pabellon de Colombia (consulado de Colombia y Fundacion Museo Atarazanas)
Public building named vacant · Edificio
14,728 m²—1,197 m—
58residential building, cadastral ref. 5637916TG3453F
Distressed or stranded (named) · residential · 1 other source nearby
1,985 m²—210 m—

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

Norte (San Jerónimo, Pino Montano, Store)

The highest share of empty homes in the city and a cluster of empty municipal halls and buildings, next to the plot EMVISESA set aside for co-operative housing.

  • 9.8% of homes empty in 2022 (3,057), up from 5.5% in 2017; 13.3% in Pino Montano
  • 13 empty municipal halls in the Store industrial estate and the old San Jerónimo station hall (2017 map)
  • Municipal co-op housing plot by the CREA in San Jerónimo

Risk: Several of the City's halls in the Store estate were only presumed empty in 2017; their state needs checking one by one.

3 sources

Este-Alcosa-Torreblanca and Palmete

Empty homes are rising here and the Junta plans a new neighbourhood of up to 1,500 homes on a disused plot between Palmete and Padre Pío.

  • 7.7% of homes empty in 2022 (3,259), up from 5.5% in 2017; 10.5% in Torreblanca
  • Up to 1,500 homes, almost 1,300 protected, on a ~250,000 m² plot (Feb 2026)
  • EMVISESA bought an 11-home building on Calle Verdad, Palmete, from Banco Santander to stop evictions (Feb 2026)

Risk: Rents are accelerating as demand pushed out of the centre arrives; the new neighbourhood is a regional scheme, not a conversion.

3 sources

Casco Antiguo

The most expensive district, where the State and the City still hold houses and premises — the Patio de Banderas houses, riverside halls and empty municipal buildings.

  • Rents €2,136 a month, €27.8/m², +74.1% year on year (Q2 2026)
  • Empty homes fell from 11.4% (2017) to 3.1% (2022) while second and seasonal homes rose to 24%
  • Nine State-owned buildings on the Patio de Banderas and Miguel Mañara in the Hacienda inventory

Risk: Rents of €27.8 per m² (+74% in a year) and tourist demand; few homes stand empty (3.1%), and most public buildings are listed.

3 sources

Bellavista-La Palmera (Alfonso XIII barracks)

The largest abandoned public complex in the south of the city, for sale by the Ministry of Defence.

  • 119,000 m² site, more than 22,700 m² of buildings
  • Auction starting price €12.4 million (2026), €3.1 million more than in 2019

Risk: The General Plan rules out housing on the site; tertiary and public uses only, unless the plan is changed.

1 source

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
City agency

EMVISESA — the City's housing and land company

EMVISESA buys empty and threatened buildings for its rental stock (11 homes on Calle Verdad from Banco Santander in 2026) and has programmed municipal plots for co-operative housing, starting with a cohousing pilot in San Jerónimo. A co-op can propose to manage or rehabilitate such buildings, or bid in the co-op plot calls.

2 sources
Public owner

Estado — Patrimonio del Estado and the Ministry of Defence (INVIED)

The State holds houses on the Patio de Banderas and large plots (Los Gordales, Tablada, Cartuja) with no ministry using them, and Defence auctions its barracks. Since 2025 the State's housing company Casa 47 (formerly SEPES) receives State land for rental housing — the place to ask for a plot or a building on a surface right.

2 sources
Public owner

Junta de Andalucía — Consejería de Fomento and AVRA

The regional government is putting its land into protected housing (Palmete–Padre Pío, 1,500 homes) under the new Andalusian housing law; it publishes its property inventory quarterly as open data. Co-ops can ask for a block on a surface right within such schemes.

2 sources

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-09-26
    Old industrial and military buildings find new uses

    The Santa Bárbara hall goes to the Ateneo on a 75-year cesión, the Fábrica de Artillería is only partly reopened, and port warehouses at Tablada are proposed as offices.

    1 source
  2. 2026-08-18
    Rents up 42% in a year

    Asking rents reached €18.4 per m² a month in the second quarter of 2026; households spend 32.7% of income on rent.

    1 source
  3. 2026-05-18
    Alfonso XIII barracks back at auction

    Defence put the 119,000 m² barracks up for auction again at €12.4 million, with the auction on 1 July 2026.

    1 source
  4. 2026-02-24
    1,500 homes planned on a disused plot

    The Junta presented the partial plan for a new neighbourhood between Palmete and Padre Pío.

    1 source
  5. 2026-02-20
    EMVISESA buys a building to stop evictions

    The City's housing company agreed to buy an 11-home protected building in Palmete from Banco Santander.

    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 API90Live
2026-10-10
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-10
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 download7 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-10
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 download77 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-10
Catastro INSPIRE licence 1.0 (free use of transformed information, with attribution)
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-10
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
2026-10-10
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
2026-10-10
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
2026-10-10
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 API109Live
2026-10-10
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
2026-10-10
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
2026-10-10
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
2026-10-10
Cited publisher per point
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
EHC research8Live
2026-10-10
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
2026-10-10
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Municipal buildings and industrial halls the City recorded as empty (2017 map of municipal premises)
Ayuntamiento de Sevilla — map of municipal premises (Delegación de Empleo, published on the City's ArcGIS Online account)
Open API48Live
2026-10-10
No licence stated on the layer; the City lists its spatial open data (IDE Sevilla) under CC0 1.0 on datos.gob.es — shown with credit to the Ayuntamiento de Sevilla
Municipal shop and office units the City recorded as empty (2017 map of municipal premises)
Ayuntamiento de Sevilla — map of municipal premises (Delegación de Empleo, published on the City's ArcGIS Online account)
Open API79Live
2026-10-10
No licence stated on the layer; the City lists its spatial open data (IDE Sevilla) under CC0 1.0 on datos.gob.es — shown with credit to the Ayuntamiento de Sevilla
Central-state buildings held unassigned (Patrimonio del Estado)
Gobierno de España — Portal de la Transparencia, Ministerio de Hacienda inventory of state property (CIBI), exported 8 Oct 2026
Open API10Live
2026-10-10
No licence stated on the export — shown with credit to the Portal de la Transparencia (EHC decision, 6 Oct 2026)
Central-state plots held unassigned (Patrimonio del Estado)
Gobierno de España — Portal de la Transparencia, Ministerio de Hacienda inventory of state property (CIBI), exported 8 Oct 2026
Open API4Live
2026-10-10
No licence stated on the export — shown with credit to the Portal de la Transparencia (EHC decision, 6 Oct 2026)
Areas of internal reform (ARI) in the 2006 General Plan — urban land still to be redeveloped
Ayuntamiento de Sevilla — Gerencia de Urbanismo, IDE Sevilla (PGOU 2006, classification and categories of urban land)
Open API65Live
2026-10-10
CC0 1.0 (the City's spatial open data, as listed on datos.gob.es; the item itself states no licence)
Buildings the cadastre records as ruined
Dirección General del Catastro — INSPIRE Buildings (August 2026 release)
Open download38Live
2026-10-10
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 download49Live
2026-10-10
Catastro open data (attribution: Dirección General del Catastro)
Heritage at risk in Seville — Hispania Nostra's Lista Roja
Hispania Nostra — Lista Roja del Patrimonio
Open download4Live
2026-10-10
All rights reserved (Hispania Nostra, aviso legal): only the entry's name, the street, the date added and a link to its card are kept — no descriptions or photos; credited "Hispania Nostra — Lista Roja"

What this radar cannot see yet

  • The City's list of empty municipal premises dates from 2017; no newer edition is published, so each building needs checking.
  • There is no address-level register of empty homes: the City's 2022 index is by district and neighbourhood only, and the Registro Municipal de Solares y Edificaciones Ruinosas is not published as data.
  • The Junta de Andalucía's property inventory (open data, quarterly) has no coordinates and no occupancy field, so it is not drawn yet.
  • Defence sales (INVIED) could not be reached from our servers; the barracks is added by hand from the press.
  • The cadastre records only 40 ruins and 50 declined buildings of 300 m² or more in the city (August 2026 release) — condition, not vacancy; Seville's cadastre rarely updates condition.

Know an empty building we have missed?

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

A phone held up to photograph an empty shopfront, with a map pin drawn above it

We publish the address, the kind of building and your description once we have checked it — never your email. Please do not name the people who own or live in a building.

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.

Alicante, Spain396empty buildings on recordAndorra la Vella, Andorra2empty buildings on recordBarcelona, Spain1,239empty buildings on recordBilbao, Spain19empty buildings on recordCórdoba, Spain294empty buildings on recordLas Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain181empty buildings on recordLisbon, Portugal179empty buildings on recordMadrid, Spain358empty buildings on recordMálaga, Spain1,929empty buildings on recordMurcia, Spain502empty buildings on recordPalma, Spain139empty buildings on recordPorto, Portugal414empty buildings on recordToulouse, France60empty buildings on recordValencia, Spain840empty buildings on recordZaragoza, Spain279empty buildings on record