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Turin

Turin counts about 21,700 empty homes by the City's own estimate, and a long tail of former factories, barracks and State offices. The State's register and its investor portal name the large free buildings, the City lists what it will sell in a published disposal plan, and it regularly offers empty buildings — including property confiscated from organised crime — to non-profit bodies by public call.
An empty building in Turin with homes, balconies and neighbours drawn onto it in ink
Vacant office spaceNot yet measured
Empty buildings on record9815 confirmed
On the map442buildings and sites from 12 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No broker publishes office vacancy for Turin; the national reports cover Milan and Rome only. Map built 2026-10-09.

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A tour in 3D

An empty building in Turin, and what it could become

A building checked against today's sources and found empty — a site that could be well suited to the EHC model. A short film: how it could come back to life, with what our conversion check and economic model say it could hold. A potential we spotted, not a plan.

Together, room for ≈ 21 homes — a potential, not a plan.

  1. C.S.O.A. AskatasunaCorso Regina Margherita 47 · ≈ 21 homes
  • activated ground floor
  • shared rooms
  • furnished mid-term flats
  • affordable long-term homes

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 open-data portal AperTO still answers every request with 403 (tried once with EHC's User-Agent, 8 Oct 2026), so the City's own datasets were not read.

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

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

Named empty by owners and public records

4 buildings 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 We have not been to them, and a record can be out of date; those we have confirmed empty ourselves are marked as tour stops.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
Palazzo
four-storey residential block, State flats partly free · Via Giacomo Dina 75
1,620 m²State buildings recorded as free (Agenzia del Demanio)
Owner's list · Agenzia del Demanio · register read 9 Oct 2026
Edificio Residenziale
state-owned residential building, partly free · Via del Carmine 18
3,654 m²State buildings recorded as free (Agenzia del Demanio)
Owner's list · Agenzia del Demanio · register read 9 Oct 2026
Opificio Militare - Fabbricato 3
1900s former Venchi factory, later military workshop, partly used · Corso Carlo Luigi Farini 4
1,798 m²State buildings recorded as free (Agenzia del Demanio)
Owner's list · Agenzia del Demanio · register read 9 Oct 2026
Former State artillery depot, Via Bologna 190As a partner
former wool mill and army artillery depot, mixed-use offer · Via Bologna 190 · Agenzia del Demanio
25,500 m²State buildings offered to investors (Agenzia del Demanio, Portale Investitori)
Owner's list · Agenzia del Demanio · 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
85Edificio scolastico
Public building named vacant · Edificio scolastico (es.: scuola di ogni ordine e grado, università, scuola di formazione) · 2 other sources nearby
1,921 m²13.9 m610 mA fit only
81Edificio ResidenzialeNot confirmed yet
Public building named vacant · Edificio Residenziale
3,654 m²12 m522 mA fit only
79Caserma Cernaia - Fabbricato 4
Public building named vacant · Caserma Cernaia
2,062 m²—376 m—
76Fabbricato per attività produttiva
Public building named vacant · Fabbricato per attività produttiva (industriale, artigianale o agricola)
6,256 m²—614 m—
76Porzione Ospedale Regina Margherita
Public building named vacant · Porzione Ospedale Regina Margherita · 1 other source nearby
20,340 m²—533 m—
73Uffici Dogane Monopoli
Public building named vacant · Uffici Dogane Monopoli · 1 other source nearby
27,000 m²—713 m—
73Caserma Cernaia - Fabbricato 1
On public land · Caserma Cernaia · 3 other sources nearby
3,752 m²—376 m—
73Ospedali, case di cura, cliniche e assimilabili
Public building named vacant · Ospedali, case di cura, cliniche e assimilabili · 1 other source nearby
5,065 m²15.1 m1,362 mA fit only
71Former State artillery depot, Via Bologna 190Not confirmed yetOnly as a partner
Public building named vacant · 1 other source nearby
25,500 m²13.3 m2,076 mA fit only
66Fabbricato Residenziale
Public building named vacant · Palazzina Alloggi
8,585 m²—887 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

Barriera di Milano and Regio Parco (north)

Former industrial belt with the ex INCET transformation area and the ex Manifattura Tabacchi, whose factory blocks the State records as free.

  • Ex Manifattura Tabacchi: 41,000 m² of buildings to regenerate
  • Corso Regio Parco 124–142: eight State factory records, about 17,300 m², recorded free (heritage-listed, so not on the free-building layer)
  • Ex INCET blocks at Via Cigna: about 7,350 m² offered by the City in 2025

Risk: Large sites are already planned for public uses or sold by auction; soil remediation is likely.

2 sources

Lingotto, Nizza Millefonti and Italia '61 (south)

The empty Palazzo del Lavoro and the hospital quarter, where part of the former Regina Margherita hospital is State property recorded as free.

  • Palazzo del Lavoro abandoned, damaged by fire in 2015, owned by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti since 2021
  • Former Regina Margherita: about 20,340 m² recorded free

Risk: Heritage buildings with heavy restoration costs; the hospital quarter is earmarked for health and research uses.

2 sources

Santa Rita and Mirafiori Nord (south-west)

A 27,000 m² State office building recorded as free, in a residential district with tram and metro links.

  • Via Bruno Giordano 97: about 27,000 m² gross recorded free
  • Corso Sebastopoli 3: State tax offices (about 6,600 m², heritage-listed) recorded free

Risk: A single large office block: the State may reuse or sell it as one lot.

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
Public owner

Città di Torino — Divisione Patrimonio (property division)

The City publishes a three-year plan of sales, surface rights and valorisation leases (2025–2027) and runs auctions and direct sales from it; in 2025 it also sounded the market on lending City buildings for student housing under the national PNRR scheme (DM 481/2024). A co-op can bid for a surface right or ask for a valorisation lease on a listed building.

2 sources
Allocation rule

City Council — the 'Vuoti a rendere' citizens' resolution

A citizens' initiative asked for a census of homes empty for two years or more, warnings and higher taxes for owners of five or more empty units, and an end to sales of public housing; the version put to the vote in September 2025 had been watered down. A census, if adopted, would be the first list of empty buildings in Turin.

1 source
Allocation rule

Città di Torino — calls for non-profit bodies (Divisione Patrimonio)

The City offers empty buildings to non-profit bodies by public notice with a reduced rent for a social project (Avviso 3/2026: three lots including the former education building at Via Cena 5, closed 29 September 2026), and gathers expressions of interest for reusing buildings it cannot fund itself (Corso Regina Margherita 47, open to 9 November 2026). A co-op or its partner association can apply.

1 source
Allocation rule

Città di Torino — confiscated property (Codice Antimafia, art. 48)

Property confiscated from organised crime and handed to the City is granted free of rent to third-sector bodies with a social project; the City runs its own calls (Avviso Beni Confiscati 2/2026: two units at Via San Francesco da Paola 38/G and Via Cavour 9, open until 12:00 on 14 October 2026).

1 source

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-10-06
    Call to reuse Corso Regina Margherita 47 open until 9 November

    The City is gathering expressions of interest for the ground floor and courtyard of a building unused since 1981.

    1 source
  2. 2026-07-23
    Corso Chieri 19 draws a bid; two City plots go unsold

    At the City property company's auction 1/2026 the former municipal-police building at Corso Chieri 19 (about 350 m², free) received an offer; the two building plots drew none.

    1 source
  3. 2025-11-18
    City auction of the ex INCET blocks closes

    Auction 38/2025 offered about 7,350 m² of City buildings at Via Cigna and Via Cervino; from 29 October 2025 the City publishes new sales on its tenders portal.

    1 source
  4. 2025-09-26
    About 21,700 empty homes, by the City's estimate

    The City's offices count 21,699 unoccupied available homes; 7,836 households applied in the 2023 public-housing call.

    1 source
  5. 2024-10-10
    Ex Manifattura Tabacchi design chosen

    The Demanio named the winning design for a State archive and cultural hub on 4.5 ha in Regio Parco, with €15m for demolitions in 2025.

    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 API111Live
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 download83 buildings sizedLive
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 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 API33Live
2026-10-09
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
2026-10-09
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
2026-10-09
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 research9Live
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)
State buildings recorded as free (Agenzia del Demanio)
Agenzia del Demanio — Geoportale, Immobili dello Stato
Open API11Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the map service — credited to Agenzia del Demanio (its open-data files are CC BY 3.0 IT); shown under the 6 Oct 2026 licence decision
State-owned buildings of 1,000 m² or more in use (Agenzia del Demanio)
Agenzia del Demanio — Geoportale, Immobili dello Stato
Open API143Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the map service — credited to Agenzia del Demanio (its open-data files are CC BY 3.0 IT); shown under the 6 Oct 2026 licence decision
OpenStreetMap: land mapped as brownfield
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API26Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
State buildings offered to investors (Agenzia del Demanio, Portale Investitori)
Agenzia del Demanio — Crea valore, investi con noi (investor portal)
Open API3Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the map service — credited to Agenzia del Demanio (its open-data files are CC BY 3.0 IT); shown under the 6 Oct 2026 licence decision
City buildings in the 2025–2027 disposal plan (Città di Torino)
Città di Torino — Divisione Patrimonio, Piano delle alienazioni e valorizzazioni 2025–2027 (Council resolution 435/2025, annex 6)
Manual download10Snapshot
2026-10-09
No licence stated — a public council resolution, credited to the City of Turin
Property confiscated from organised crime and handed to public bodies (ANBSC)
Agenzia nazionale per l'amministrazione e la destinazione dei beni sequestrati e confiscati (ANBSC) — OpenRE.G.I.O.
Manual download21Snapshot
2026-10-09
IODL 2.0 (Italian Open Data Licence, linked from the portal)
City of Turin: property procedures (concessions, calls and consultations)
Città di Torino — Divisione Patrimonio
Open download1Live
2026-10-09
not stated — public notices, credited to the publisher
Public buildings their owner records as not used (Treasury property census 2023)
Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze, Dipartimento dell'Economia — Rilevazione dei beni immobili delle amministrazioni pubbliche (data at 31 Dec 2023)
Manual download4Snapshot
2026-10-09
CC BY 4.0 (stated on the MEF open-data page; reuse with the source credited)
Public flats, shops and stores their owner records as not used (Treasury property census 2023)
Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze, Dipartimento dell'Economia — Rilevazione dei beni immobili delle amministrazioni pubbliche (data at 31 Dec 2023)
Manual download70Snapshot
2026-10-09
CC BY 4.0 (stated on the MEF open-data page; reuse with the source credited)

What this radar cannot see yet

  • The City's open-data portal AperTO still answers every request with 403 (tried once with EHC's User-Agent, 8 Oct 2026), so the City's own datasets were not read.
  • No building-level vacancy data: Piemonte's topographic database records no ruined buildings inside the city (62 in the surrounding box, none in Turin).
  • The general plan's zones (PRG Azzonamento, CC BY 4.0) are downloadable only from a password-protected area of the City geoportal and as a WMS picture, so transformation zones are not on the map.
  • The disposal plan is a PDF: its whole buildings are transcribed by hand (10), its flats, cellars, kiosks and land are not.
  • No office-market vacancy figure is published for Turin.
  • The orthophoto states no licence; it is credited to the City pending confirmation.

Know an empty building we have missed?

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

Bari, Italy918empty buildings on recordBern, Switzerland5empty buildings on recordBologna, Italy87empty buildings on recordCatania, Italy217empty buildings on recordFlorence, Italy71empty buildings on recordGenoa, Italy174empty buildings on recordLyon, France44empty buildings on recordMessina, Italy71empty buildings on recordMilan, Italy504empty buildings on recordMonaco, Monaco1empty buildings on recordNaples, Italy255empty buildings on recordNice, France46empty buildings on recordPalermo, Italy56empty buildings on recordRome, Italy1,114empty buildings on recordVerona, Italy55empty buildings on record