Office figures: No current Tirana office-vacancy figure 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 empty or unused State or municipal buildings is published. The 2015 list of 85 assets named districts but no addresses and is eleven years old.
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Tirana: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | Former Hotel Dajti (Bank of Albania) Public building named vacant · 4 storeys | 6,861 m² | 27.5 m | — | B fit only |
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
A protected 1940s hotel on the city’s main boulevard has not worked as a hotel since 2002 and belongs to the central bank.
Risk: A public body with its own plan (a €16 million rebuild at tender in 2017); heritage protection since 2002; a disputed purchase.
The government’s programme puts State plots near the Selman Stërmasi stadium, the Harry Fultz school and the engineering faculties on offer, with the State taking office space in exchange for building rights.
Risk: New towers on State plots, not reuse; the State keeps about half the development and offers no housing share in what was published.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
The State lets developers build on its land and takes about 50% of the result as office space, so it stops paying rent; four projects approved by the National Territorial Council were put to tender in January 2025. A co-operative could propose a housing share on a future State plot under the same ‘land for space’ model.
Holds the former Hotel Dajti and ran a restricted tender for its rebuild in late 2016; a co-operative has no route in unless the Bank changes its plan, but can ask what became of the 2017 tender.
The draft law merges the three bodies that decide who owns and may use land and State buildings; consultation was scheduled to close on 7 October 2026. A co-operative should watch whether the new agency publishes an inventory of unused State property.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
The government put a draft law for consultation (closing 7 October) that merges the State Cadastre Agency, the Property Treatment Agency and State-property administration under the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Rama presented the ‘Bridge for Albania 2030’ programme: the State provides land and receives office space in exchange; offers were due on 20 January and, for the stadium, 24 January 2025.
The Ministry of Economic Development published two packages of 85 assets for sale; the Tirana items included tunnels, a car park, a film archive with a costume store and old studio, greenhouses and warehouses at the potato institute, and an annex of the former Naim Frashëri publishing house.
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 | 67 | 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 | 102 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 | 103 | 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 | 98 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
| Brownfield land mapped on OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr) | Open API | 30 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 |
Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Tirana that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.
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The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.