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Vilnius

Vilnius publishes no list of empty buildings in the open: the City's own sites sit behind a bot challenge. What its planning company Vilniaus planas made public in September 2026 is a register of buildings an image-recognition model flagged as abandoned — 1,394 records, 132 of them “abandoned” with a footprint of 200 m² or more — without a stated licence. State property comes to market through Turto bankas: State bodies handed it 211 unused properties (30.6 thousand m²) in the first eight months of 2026, and the Buivydiškių g. 20 office building and the former Labour Inspectorate on Aguonų g. 4 sold for EUR 5.5 and 3.8 million. Office vacancy is 8.4% (Newsec, Q2 2026).
Vacant office space8.4%of the office stock stands empty (the floor area is not published)
Empty buildings on record2834 confirmed, 15 likely
On the map964buildings and sites from 8 open sources
Homes potential≈ 1,776if 30% of empty offices converted

Office figures: Newsec Baltic Office Outlook Q2 2026: Vilnius vacancy 8.4% (9.7% in Q1; H1 take-up about 81,900 m², pipeline about 65,300 m²); Q1 stock about 1,271,900 m². Eika (Q1 2026): class A offices in the central area above 13% on 548,000 m², class B 8% on 659,000 m²; investors increasingly buy half-empty offices for conversion. No m² figure is published for the empty space. Homes: our economic model’s conversion engine. 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.

vilnius.lt, opendata.vilnius.lt and maps.vilnius.lt answer a Cloudflare bot challenge, so the City's list of neglected property (the basis of a higher property-tax rate), its licence statements and its map layers could not be read; a person can download them.

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Check any building in Vilnius: 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
76Administracinis pastatas su žemės sklypu
Public building named vacant · Administracinis pastatas
1,837 m²14.2 m2,212 mA fit only
76Pastatai su žemės sklypu Vilniaus centre
Public building named vacant · 3/4 dalys kultūros mokyklos su parduotuvės patalpomis · 1 other source nearby
2,027 m²12.1 m825 mA fit only
71Administracinis pastatas su žemės sklypu
Public building named vacant · Administracinis pastatas · 4 storeys
2,271 m²19.2 m2,882 mA works up to €1,000–1,250/m²
63Balžio g. 41, 10151 Vilnius
Distressed or stranded (named) · Building flagged as abandoned · 3 other sources nearby
3,112 m²13.9 m—A fit only
60Near Balžio g. 43C
Distressed or stranded (named) · Building flagged as abandoned · 2 other sources nearby
2,225 m²10.4 m—A fit only
57Near Balžio g. 47
Distressed or stranded (named) · Building flagged as abandoned · 1 other source nearby
3,100 m²11.1 m—A fit only
56Pastatas - įstaiga
Public building named vacant · Įstaiga · 3 storeys
1,766 m²17.5 m2,215 mA works up to €1,000–1,250/m²
52Near A. Kojelavičiaus g.
Distressed or stranded (named) · Building flagged as abandoned · 1 other source nearby
2,037 m²11.7 m2,199 mA fit only
51Pastatų kompleksas su žemės sklypu
Public building named vacant · Autodirbtuvės
7,187 m²33.3 m2,509 mC fit only
49Švitrigailos g. 40A, flagged abandoned and reported by residents
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
2,274 m²25.2 m936 mB fit only

Districts where conversion makes sense

Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.

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Inner city: Naujamiestis, Šnipiškės and Antakalnis

Three large buildings, 1,080–1,190 m² of footprint each, are flagged abandoned by the City's model and reported by residents; Šnipiškės lies beside the central office district.

  • Švitrigailos g. 40A (1,081 m²), A. Juozapavičiaus g. 30 (1,124 m²) and Antakalnio g. 40 (1,190 m²): model flag plus resident reports
  • Central class A offices were above 13% vacant in Q1 2026 (Eika)

Risk: Model-made evidence, owners unknown, no floor area; each building must be field-checked.

2 sources

Paneriai and Naujininkai

The southern rail and industrial belt holds the most large buildings flagged abandoned: 28 in Paneriai and 6 in Naujininkai with a footprint of 200 m² or more.

  • 28 flagged buildings of 200 m² or more in Paneriai, 6 in Naujininkai (City model, 15 Sep 2026)
  • Antakalnis follows with 25 and Verkiai and Naujoji Vilnia with 10 each

Risk: Industrial and warehouse sheds whose floor plates may be deep; the model's flag is condition, not vacancy.

1 source

Šeškinė

The State sold a 1,200 m² empty administrative building with a 0.62 ha plot in the middle of the district; the plot lies in a zone where the general plan allows apartment blocks.

  • Buivydiškių g. 20: not in use, 1979, sold for EUR 5.525 million against a starting price of EUR 2.25 million
  • Turto bankas plans to put 235 State properties to market by the end of 2026

Risk: The State sells at auction to the highest bidder (EUR 5.5 million here, against a EUR 2.25 million start), so a co-operative needs a financing partner.

2 sources

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

Turto bankas (AB, State property bank) — State property no longer needed

State bodies hand over buildings they no longer use (211 properties and 30.6 thousand m² in the first eight months of 2026) and Turto bankas offers them at public electronic auctions, announced on turtas.lt and the national auction portal evarzytynes.lt. The auctions are price competitions — prices rise about 20% above the start on average — so a co-operative needs a financing partner; ask Turto bankas which properties are coming before they are announced.

3 sources
Private owner

Owners of half-empty offices (central class A, older class B)

Newsec says older, less competitive office stock is under growing pressure to consider alternative uses and Eika says investors increasingly buy half-empty offices for conversion rather than for letting; a co-operative can approach owners of older central offices as a buyer or long-term tenant. A change of use needs the City's permit.

2 sources

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-09-23
    Šeškinė office building sold for EUR 5.5 million

    Buivydiškių g. 20, a State building not in use, went to the highest of 23 bidders at a Turto bankas auction.

    1 source
  2. 2026-09-15
    City of Vilnius makes its abandoned-buildings register public

    Vilniaus planas publishes 1,394 buildings flagged as abandoned or possibly abandoned by an image model, with priority weights from other City data (item created 10 Sep, edited 15 Sep 2026).

    1 source
  3. 2026-09-02
    Turto bankas: 235 State properties to market by year end

    Autumn auctions include large administrative buildings in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda; more than half of the announced auctions took place this year.

    1 source
  4. 2026-08-26
    State bodies gave up 211 unused properties in eight months

    About 30.6 thousand m² were handed to Turto bankas (21.2 thousand m² in all of 2025).

    1 source
  5. 2026-07-29
    Former State Labour Inspectorate building sold

    The administrative building at Aguonų g. 4 beside the Old Town, vacated when the Inspectorate moved to a renovated State building on Mindaugo g. 12, sold for EUR 3.83 million with its nearly 13-are plot.

    1 source
  6. 2026-07
    Office vacancy falls to 8.4%

    Newsec's Q2 2026 report says Vilnius vacancy dropped from 9.7% as take-up rose 63% year on year and the pipeline halved; recently completed central projects still carry substantial vacancy.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

16 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 API266Live
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 download659 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 API139Live
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)
Buildings flagged abandoned by the City's image model and by a second City data flag
Vilniaus planas (City of Vilnius planning company) — ArcGIS item Apleistumas_prioritetai_view, published for opendata.vilnius.lt
Open API53Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the ArcGIS item (it is made public for opendata.vilnius.lt, whose licence page is behind a bot challenge) — shown by EHC decision of 9 Oct 2026 with credit to the publisher, Vilniaus planas (City of Vilnius planning company); removed on request
Buildings of 200 m² or more flagged abandoned by the City's image model (no second flag)
Vilniaus planas (City of Vilnius planning company) — ArcGIS item Apleistumas_prioritetai_view, published for opendata.vilnius.lt
Open API107Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the ArcGIS item (it is made public for opendata.vilnius.lt, whose licence page is behind a bot challenge) — shown by EHC decision of 9 Oct 2026 with credit to the publisher, Vilniaus planas (City of Vilnius planning company); removed on request
Office buildings mapped in OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API350Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Brownfield land (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API21Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
State buildings the State Property Bank will put up for auction ('Būs parduodama')
VĮ Turto bankas (State Property Bank)
Open download22Live
2026-10-09
not stated — credited to the publisher

What this radar cannot see yet

  • vilnius.lt, opendata.vilnius.lt and maps.vilnius.lt answer a Cloudflare bot challenge, so the City's list of neglected property (the basis of a higher property-tax rate), its licence statements and its map layers could not be read; a person can download them.
  • The only open register of abandoned buildings is model-made condition evidence with no stated licence; its flags ESO, BAS and NTR are undocumented, and it carries no owner, use or floor area. It is shown by decision, with credit, and comes off on request.
  • The City's 3D building model (storeys and an ownership flag, field NUOSAVYBE with no published code list; 2021) and its parcel-ownership layers carry no licence statement, and the parcel layers withhold geometry; they were not wired. Storeys from the 3D model are the likeliest floor-area source for Vilnius.
  • The national real-estate register's open building attributes (use, storeys, areas; CC BY 4.0) and its building outlines are separate files with no public key between them, so no open layer of building use with geometry exists.
  • turtas.lt shows only the properties Turto bankas has announced; the national auction portal listed no non-residential whole building of 300 m² or more for sale by the State or the City in Vilnius on 9 Oct 2026 (the 14 buildings listed were leases, shares, houses and garages).
  • The City's 2024 orthophoto tiles send no CORS header, so the 3D tour's ground needs a tile route.

Know an empty building we have missed?

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

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Radars nearby

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The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

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