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Vaduz

Liechtenstein publishes no vacancy register for buildings, and the Amt für Statistik's housing report (a PDF on statistikportal.li) sits behind a Cloudflare challenge that our requests could not pass, so no vacancy rate is quoted here. What is open: the national building and dwelling register lists 2,098 buildings in Vaduz by category (762 'without residential use') but not storeys, use or floor area, and the Gemeinde's public council minutes show how it handles its own commercial buildings — Gewerbeweg 23/23a, vacated at the end of 2024 and refitted for a charity shop, and Städtle 18, 20 and 22, 1,384 m² of lettable offices and shops it agreed to buy for CHF 14 million in January 2025. The radar adds the mapped office stock and OpenStreetMap's abandoned tags; nothing here is a vacancy register.
Vacant office spaceNot yet measured
Empty buildings on record70 confirmed
On the map97buildings and sites from 3 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No Liechtenstein or Vaduz office vacancy figure was found in any source we could open. Map built 2026-10-09.

Vaduz city profileReuse atlas: all of Europe

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.

No vacancy figure is quoted. Liechtenstein's Amt für Statistik publishes an annual 'Gebäude, Wohnungen' report with the share of dwellings not inhabited on the reference date, but statistikportal.li answers automated requests with a Cloudflare challenge ('Just a moment…'), which we do not work around; a person can download it.

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

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

Städtle — the town centre

The Gemeinde is assembling the centre: it agreed to buy the neighbouring Städtle 18, 20 and 22 (offices, shops and stores on 2,115 m² of plot) as an 'island' inside its own holdings.

  • 1,033 m² offices, 145 m² commerce, 206 m² storage — 1,384 m² lettable
  • CHF 14,000,000 purchase price, approved unanimously on 21 January 2025
  • Core zone K, plan 'Städtli Nord', plot ratio 1.6

Risk: The purchase is for the centre's development (the Rathausplatz roof, access to underground parking), not for housing; the buildings were let, not empty.

1 source

Gewerbeweg — the commercial strip

A Gemeinde-owned 1991 commercial building came free when its tenant left at the end of 2024; the council gave the space to a charity free of charge.

  • Tenant ended the lease at the end of 2024
  • CHF 1.5 million credit approved (11 of 12 present)
  • Ground floor and two upper floors for the charity shop and a museum

Risk: Already committed to the Frauenverein Vaduz; the building is a hall, not housing stock.

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

Gemeinde Vaduz — Hochbau and Liegenschaften departments

Owns and buys central commercial buildings and decides in public council minutes; it has given a vacated building to a non-profit association free of charge (the Frauenverein's second-hand shop). A co-operative can ask the Gemeinde for space as a non-profit and watch the Grunderwerbs- und Baurechtskommission's purchases and the minutes' property items.

2 sources
Public owner

Land Liechtenstein (Government) — Hochbau

The other large public owner. It is converting its 1970s post and administration building in Vaduz into the National Library (CHF 38.45 million available at the end of December 2025; opening planned for the third quarter of 2029), so it reuses rather than sells; no list of idle State buildings is public, and a co-operative would have to ask which become free when services consolidate.

1 source

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-04-02
    Landtag report: National Library conversion fully financed

    CHF 38.45 million is available for converting the Post- und Verwaltungsgebäude; the library is planned to open in the third quarter of 2029 (the report's date is taken from its file metadata).

    1 source
  2. 2025-01-21
    Gemeinde agrees to buy Städtle 18, 20 and 22

    CHF 14 million for two plots of 2,115 m² with 1,384 m² of lettable space, unanimously, 13 members present.

    1 source
  3. 2024-12-17
    Refit of Gewerbeweg 23/23a approved

    After the tenant's lease ended, CHF 1.5 million was approved to convert the hall for the Frauenverein's second-hand shop and museum.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

12 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 API7Live
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 download54 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 API0Live
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 research1Live
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 mapped on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API89Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • No vacancy figure is quoted. Liechtenstein's Amt für Statistik publishes an annual 'Gebäude, Wohnungen' report with the share of dwellings not inhabited on the reference date, but statistikportal.li answers automated requests with a Cloudflare challenge ('Just a moment…'), which we do not work around; a person can download it.
  • The open Gebäude- und Wohnungsregister (18,114 buildings, CSV, weekly, source credit required) gives category and coordinates only; 762 of Vaduz's 2,098 buildings are 'without residential use' (garages, sheds and offices alike), so it is not wired as an office layer.
  • Floor areas: the open register has no storeys. swisstopo's swissBUILDINGS3D 3.0 covers Switzerland and Liechtenstein and its tiles over Vaduz exist in the swisstopo catalogue (2022 edition, CityGML); that is the source to switch on for heights. Until then, floor areas come from the Global Building Atlas.
  • Liechtenstein's own geodata portal lists a 2025 orthophoto (SwissImage 10 cm) and a contaminated-sites layer, but only as WMS with 'free for non-commercial use' terms; the radar's aerial uses swisstopo's open SWISSIMAGE service instead, and no WFS for the contaminated-sites layer was found.
  • The Gemeinde's minutes are free text with no property list; four council sessions read (26 March 2024 to 21 January 2025) named no empty building besides the vacated Gewerbeweg hall. A person could ask the Liegenschaftsverwaltung for its commercial premises list.
  • OpenStreetMap tags 13 buildings inside Vaduz as abandoned or ruined; the shared lifecycle layer draws them, none is sourced beyond that tag.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Vaduz that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

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Radars nearby

The nearest radars. All 134 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

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