Office figures: Catella Market Review Finland, Spring 2026 (Q4 2025): Tampere offices 13.9% vacant on a stock of about 950,000 m²; empty space about 133,000 m²; prime rent EUR 24 per m² a month, prime yield 7.75%. 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.
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Tampere: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | Kalevan entinen lastentalo (former children's house), Kaleva On public land · 2 storeys · 1 other source nearby | 3,257 m² | 15.6 m | 214 m | A fit only | |
| 88 | Kalevan entinen lastentalo Public building named vacant · Protected 1953 building, former children's house · 3 storeys | 3,707 m² | 14.4 m | 252 m | A fit only | |
| 61 | Rollikkahalli (former trolleybus depot), Pyynikinrinne On public land · 1 storey · 1 other source nearby | 5,056 m² | 53.9 m | 608 m | A fit only |
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
The densest office stock — and the oldest: most of it was built before 1990.
Risk: Central prices and protected buildings; the register gives no vacancy per building.
Three City-owned heritage buildings are on offer in these neighbourhoods: Kalevan lastentalo (3,257 m²), the former Pyynikki hospital ward (1,325 m²) and Rollikkahalli (5,056 m²).
Risk: All three are protected: demolition is forbidden and new building right is tied to renovating the old building first.
The southern office district: 15 office buildings of 1,000 m² or more, and the City is selling an office unit of 788 m² that can be split into three.
Risk: Smaller buildings, mostly owned by funds and companies; the city's own offer is a single office unit, not a building.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
The City sells what it does not need by open tender, auction or idea competition and publishes the list on one web page; its report to the property committee names nine buildings on sale, eleven in sale preparation, twelve in plan work and eighteen awaiting action (November 2024). The Kalevan lastentalo sale is by tender; Rollikkahalli is sold on a concept (idea competition) rather than price, the format where a co-operative's housing model counts.
The City offers 55 business plots for sale or lease, 25 of them marked free (Vapaa) on the test day; they are zoned for industry, offices and services, so housing needs a plan change, but they show where the City holds land.
With about 14% of office space empty and most central buildings older than 1990, owners of older offices are the likeliest sellers; the City decides the change of use by plan change or exception.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
Second-stage offers in the City's idea competition for the 1950 trolleybus hall were due on 16 Sep 2026; final negotiations Sep–Oct 2026, sale planned for autumn 2027.
On sale: Keson kivinavetta (auction closed 31 Aug), Kalevan lastentalo, the Hervanta office unit and the Rollikkahalli competition; one 377 m² office unit to let in Lielahti.
The City offers a protected 1917 building at Vernissaraitti 6, Epilä (260 gross m², formerly a music school) on Huutokaupat.com until 8 Aug 2026, for renovation.
The City opens a two-stage competition to sell the historic hall (5,056 floor m²) on a concept and let its plot; a plan change for the property is under way.
The City's real-estate disposal status report names the buildings and the stage each has reached; the service network releases more schools and day-care centres up to 2030.
19 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 | 26 | 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 | 12 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 | 50 | 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 | 5 | 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) |
| Apartment blocks registered as empty (national building register, Ryhti) Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), Ryhti built-environment information system — data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency and the municipalities; addresses joined from Ryhti open_address by scripts/reuse/import-espoo-ryhti-empty.ts | Open download | 39 | Live 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 (Syke open data: credit Finnish Environment Institute Syke, Ryhti buildings) |
| Houses of 150 m² or more registered as empty (national building register, Ryhti) Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), Ryhti built-environment information system — data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency and the municipalities; addresses joined from Ryhti open_address by scripts/reuse/import-espoo-ryhti-empty.ts | Open download | 256 | Live 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 (Syke open data: credit Finnish Environment Institute Syke, Ryhti buildings) |
| Office buildings of 1,000 m² or more, with floor area and storeys (City of Tampere building register) City of Tampere — city survey data (Kaupunkimittaus) | Open API | 135 | Live 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 (Tampereen kaupunki, buildings dataset on data.tampere.fi) |
| Industrial and warehouse buildings with 3+ storeys and 500 m² or more (City of Tampere building register) City of Tampere — city survey data (Kaupunkimittaus) | Open API | 47 | Live 2026-10-09 | CC BY 4.0 (Tampereen kaupunki, buildings dataset on data.tampere.fi) |
| City-owned business plots offered for sale or lease City of Tampere — land and property (WFS kiinteistot:yritystontit_ulkoinen_nakyma1) | Open API | 51 | Live 2026-10-09 | No licence stated on this layer (the City's catalogue datasets are CC BY 4.0) — used with credit to the City of Tampere |
| Local plans in preparation (planning register) City of Tampere — urban planning (WFS maankaytto:AK_KAAVATYOT_GSVIEW) | Open API | 131 | Live 2026-10-09 | No licence stated on this layer (the City's catalogue datasets are CC BY 4.0) — used with credit to the City of Tampere |
| Brownfield land (OpenStreetMap) OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | 17 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
| Buildings the City of Tampere offers for sale Tampereen kaupunki (City of Tampere) | Open download | 3 | Live 2026-10-09 | not stated — credited to the publisher |
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