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Stockholm

Stockholm has no open vacancy register and no public list of surplus property, so the radar rests on the City's own papers and a stock layer. The Real Estate Office says in its plans for 2026 and 2027 that it is emptying an industrial property in Älvsjö for sale by September 2026, vacating Långsjö gård ahead of a sale, and holds vacant shops in Medborgarhuset and Kulturhuset and vacant LSS flats and play-park buildings. Office vacancy is 11.1% inside the toll ring but 23.1% in the northern suburbs (Citymark, spring 2026), and conversions such as Square Garden in Kista are under way. The map holds 607 office and 556 industrial buildings from the City's 3D model; none of them is known to be empty.
Vacant office space11.1%of the office stock stands empty (the floor area is not published)
Empty buildings on record312 confirmed
On the map1,262buildings and sites from 6 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: Citymark, spring 2026: 11.1% inside the toll line (10.3% in autumn 2025), 23.1% in the northern suburbs (Norrort) and 13.8% in the southern suburbs. No area figure is given. 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.

Stockholm publishes no vacancy register, no list of surplus city buildings and no public-property layer: the City's property, lease and plan maps are WMS-only and "all rights reserved", so the radar relies on the City's own committee papers (named objects only).

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0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed

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

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
61Industrial property Leverantören 2, Älvsjö (offices, workshops, warehouses)Not confirmed yet
Public building named vacant
13,721 m²54.6 m741 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

Kista and the northern suburbs (Kista Centrum, Hallonbergen edge, Rinkeby-Kista)

Office vacancy is 23.1% in the northern suburbs, the highest in the region, and Kista has a large conversion of an office block to homes under way (Square Garden, Skalholt 1).

  • Citymark: northern suburbs 23.1% (spring 2026)
  • Square Garden: 439 rentals plus tenant-owned flats in a former office block; local plan in force since 11 Nov 2020
  • 607 office buildings of about 1,000 m² or more in the 3D model; 34 in Rinkeby-Kista district

Risk: A single-use office district with deep floor plates; many owners are listed companies that convert only when numbers work. Hallonbergen's 138-home conversion is in Sundbyberg, not Stockholm.

2 sources

Älvsjö and the southern city (Leverantören 2, Långsjö gård)

The City itself is emptying two properties for sale here: an industrial property with offices, workshops and stores (13,700 m² estimated) and a historic estate building.

  • Leverantören 2: tenants out by September 2026, then sale
  • Långsjö gård 10: vacating for planned sale
  • Southern suburbs office vacancy 13.8%

Risk: Both are being sold by the City, usually on the open market, and the Älvsjö site is cleared for the metro extension.

2 sources

Inner city (Norrmalm, Östermalm, Södermalm): offices, hall and state buildings

Inner-city offices are 11.1% empty and the City reports vacant shops and offices in its landmark buildings; the State Property Board has put Musikaliska on its disposal plan.

  • Vacant commercial premises in Medborgarhuset and Kulturhuset (City papers, Dec 2025)
  • Musikaliska newly on SFV's 2025 disposal plan
  • Fanan 18 on Narvavägen: part of an office block to become homes

Risk: Prime heritage buildings are priced for commercial and cultural use; owners prefer to refit offices (Wenner-Gren Center, reopening 2027).

2 sources

Owners and routes in

Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.

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Public owner

Stockholms stad — Fastighetskontoret (Real Estate Office)

The office is told to sell what the City does not need and to move departments into its own premises. It sells either into one of the City's property companies or on the open market, and its plans name the objects (Leverantören 2, Långsjö gård, LSS flats). Ask it (fastighetskontoret@stockholm.se) for premises that are vacant or about to be, and follow Fastighetsnämnden agendas on meetingspublic.stockholm.se.

2 sources
Public owner

Region Stockholm / Locum — surplus health-care property

Region Stockholm's property company Locum sells hospital buildings the Region no longer needs, by open-market sale to the highest bidder (the former eye hospital, Tegelbruket 4 on Kungsholmen, was decided for sale in 2020 after the clinic moved to Solna). Watch Locum's news and the Regional Council agenda for vacated buildings.

1 source
Allocation rule

Boverket / the Government — easier conversion of offices to homes

New, simpler building and planning rules (including relaxed daylight requirements) are why Wallenstam can now convert a long-empty office building in Hallonbergen, and the Housing Minister cites the project as proof they work. Approach owners of long-empty offices with a co-operative buyer or tenant.

1 source

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-09-02
    Empty office building in Hallonbergen to become 138 homes

    Wallenstam will convert about 8,000 m² of offices, largely empty since 2021, using the new permit rules (the site is in Sundbyberg, next to Stockholm).

    1 source
  2. 2026-08-27
    First tenants move into the Kista office conversion

    Klövern announced move-ins from September 2026 into 439 rental homes of Square Garden, a former office building in central Kista.

    1 source
  3. 2026-04-08
    Office vacancy rises again

    Citymark: 11.1% inside the toll ring (10.3% in autumn 2025), 23.1% in the northern suburbs and 13.8% in the southern suburbs.

    1 source
  4. 2026-04-01
    City plans: Älvsjö industrial property to be emptied by September 2026

    The Real Estate Office's budget paper says Leverantören 2 (offices, workshops, stores) is to be vacant of tenants by September 2026 and sold, and that Långsjö gård is being vacated for sale.

    1 source
  5. 2025-12-18
    State Property Board adds Musikaliska to its disposal plan

    The plan of 17 December 2025 lists 45 objects, up from 37, including Ladugårdsbron 14 (Musikaliska) in Stockholm.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

15 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 API46Live
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 download6 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Heights: 3D building model LOD1 (Stockholms stad)
Stockholms stad, Stadsbyggnadskontoret
Stockholms stad, Stadsbyggnadskontoret — 3D-Byggnader (LOD1) generaliserade, January 2023. The block’s height from ground to its representative roof level (BYGG_H), turned into storeys, over its footprint (BYGG_A). Bulk zip (17.8 MB) read once. robots.txt: none on dataportalen.stockholm.se (8 Oct 2026).
Open download17 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
No licence named ("öppna geodata") — used with credit
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 API30Live
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 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 research6Live
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)
Office buildings, 3D city model (about 1,000 m² or more, from footprint × storeys)
Stockholms stad, Stadsbyggnadskontoret — SBK 3D-Byggnader (LOD1) generaliserade
Open API607Live
2026-10-09
No licence named on the portal ("öppna geodata", bulk download without login) — used with credit to Stockholms stad, Stadsbyggnadskontoret
Industrial buildings, 3D city model (about 3,000 m² or more, from footprint × storeys)
Stockholms stad, Stadsbyggnadskontoret — SBK 3D-Byggnader (LOD1) generaliserade
Open API556Live
2026-10-09
No licence named on the portal ("öppna geodata", bulk download without login) — used with credit to Stockholms stad, Stadsbyggnadskontoret
Brownfield land (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API17Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • Stockholm publishes no vacancy register, no list of surplus city buildings and no public-property layer: the City's property, lease and plan maps are WMS-only and "all rights reserved", so the radar relies on the City's own committee papers (named objects only).
  • The 3D model (January 2023) gives use, footprint and height but no address, storeys or floor area; storeys are estimated from height. Lantmäteriet's national building and orthophoto data need a Geotorget account and API key and are not used.
  • There is no open aerial photograph: the City's orthophotos are all rights reserved, Lantmäteriet's needs a key — building cards show Esri's World Imagery instead.
  • Nothing in the stock layers says a building is empty; the empty buildings named (Leverantören 2, Långsjö gård, the Vanadisbadet buildings, vacant shops in Medborgarhuset and Kulturhuset) come from the Real Estate Office's own budget papers.
  • Private owners' vacancy (about 20% in the northern suburbs) is published by brokers (Citymark, Cushman & Wakefield) as rates, not as buildings.
  • Detailed plans in preparation are in Stockholm's Bygg- och plantjänst and the WMS layers, which cannot be reused without permission.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Stockholm 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.

Aarhus, Denmark16empty buildings on recordCopenhagen, Denmark43empty buildings on recordEspoo, Finland654empty buildings on recordGdańsk, Poland415empty buildings on recordGothenburg, Sweden23empty buildings on recordHelsinki, Finland517empty buildings on recordMalmö, Sweden18empty buildings on recordOslo, Norway146empty buildings on recordRiga, Latvia1,210empty buildings on recordTallinn, Estonia269empty buildings on recordTampere, Finland300empty buildings on recordVantaa, Finland403empty buildings on record