Office figures: No current office-vacancy figure for Skopje was found (searched 9 Oct 2026); the Belgrade MarketBeat series does not cover it. 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 of State or city buildings that are empty. The City of Skopje’s open-data list “Property of the City of Skopje 2021” (data.gov.mk) holds about 70 rows of parcels and premises without coordinates or vacancy, so it is not drawn.
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Skopje: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | Children’s Resort at Vodno (unfinished) Stalled or insolvent project · 4 storeys · 2 other sources nearby | 2,390 m² | 16.9 m | — | A fit only | |
| 31 | Former OHIS chemical complex, Pintija Distressed or stranded (named) | — | — | 898 m | — |
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
Two Yugoslav-era holiday buildings on the mountain’s edge stand abandoned: the unfinished Children’s Resort and the post-office holiday home, both mapped as abandoned or ruined on OpenStreetMap.
Risk: A hillside site away from the centre, with ownership unclear beyond a ministry named in one source.
The GTC is a State-controlled 1970s shopping centre with empty upper floors beside the centre’s main squares.
Risk: About 70% of the premises belong to private owners; the State holds 98% of the managing company; renovation has no plan.
A large bankrupt chemical complex inside the city whose clean-up has been tendered by UNOPS (15 May 2026).
Risk: Toxic legacy (HCH dumps); reuse is impossible until the clean-up is finished, and no plan exists.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
Manages State land and buildings. Its director told RFE/RL the State has not decided whether to use or let the Ohrid villas, and named a 10–15-year concession (as at “Makedonsko selo” in Nerezi) as one option — the same lease model a co-operative could ask for on an idle State building. More than 600 State parcels (1.5 million m²) await cadastral registration.
Named by Spomenik Database as owner of the unfinished Children’s Resort at Vodno. A co-operative could ask the Ministry for a long lease in return for finishing the building, once ownership is checked in the cadastre.
Shop owners hold about 70% of the GTC’s premises and say they have no say in management; closed first-floor units could be bought or leased from them one by one, or as a block through an owners’ association.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
UNOPS invited bids to excavate, pack and ship HCH waste and contaminated soil from the former OHIS factory (deadline 17 July 2026).
RFE/RL reports that the State has no single register of real estate; the Cadastre registered 30–40 State facilities with unregulated status between July 2024 and January 2026; an audit found more than 600 unregistered parcels.
BIRN reports more than 40 closed shops on the first floor and no concrete renovation plan.
13 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 | 44 | 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 | 171 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 | 204 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 166 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
| Brownfield land mapped on OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr) | Open API | 5 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
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The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.