The State's real estate portfolio includes a wide variety of assets with no official use assigned, such as former courthouses, plots of land, offices, parking spaces, homes, commercial units, and even historical elements like walls and castles. These 828 publicly owned properties are spread across Spain.
Notable properties include a more than 1,000-square-meter apartment on Serrano street in Madrid, near the Puerta de Alcalá; several properties around the Maritime Promenade in Barcelona; and historic homes in the Pati de Banderes in Seville, near the Alcázar.
This list comes from the State's General Directorate of Heritage, under the Ministry of Finance, and includes heritage buildings not assigned to public use or leased to third parties. The origin of these properties is diverse, including inheritances, seizures, expropriations, and public developments that were never sold or were transferred between agencies.
The Ministry of Finance has not provided explanations for why these properties remain vacant. The Directorate General of Heritage notes that the nature of these assets is very diverse and "not always suitable for habitation." Some have been put up for auction unsuccessfully, while others are undergoing ownership verification.
The provinces with the most underutilized real estate assets are Granada (125), Málaga (66), León (45), Tarragona (38), Palencia (35), Almería (31), and Madrid (29). In the province of Girona, two unused properties have been identified: one in Olot and another in Avinyonet de Puigventós.
In Catalonia, the total number of unused properties amounts to 69, with 38 located in the province of Tarragona, including 12 parking spaces in Cambrils. Barcelona has 23 references, mainly around the Maritime Promenade.
