Unlocking Housing
Find a home.
Between Vienna and Graz, along the old rail and iron route, thousands of houses and apartments sit empty — not because no one wants them, but because no one's been looking closely. Unlocking Housing is a map that finds them, town by town, and shows you what's really there.
Many of these places can be had for less than it would cost to build something new: real towns, some directly on the rail line, some a short drive from it, real jobs nearby — just quieter than the big cities.
Three simple steps: find, check, verify.
1 · Find
Open the map and browse by town. Right now it covers five towns along the Mur–Mürz corridor and the Iron Route (Eisenstraße) — Leoben, Bruck an der Mur, Kapfenberg, Vordernberg and Eisenerz — with 43,144 buildings mapped so far. Use the municipality filter to jump straight to the town you're curious about.
2 · Check
Each building gets a rough score for how well it sits: close to the train line, close to work, close to daily life — what planners call its Einzugsgebiet (catchment area, meaning how much of daily life you could reach from there). Treat the score as a hint, never a promise.
3 · Verify
Before you get attached to any one building: click through, look closely, and confirm who owns it and whether it's actually free to move into. The map points you in a direction — it doesn't replace a visit, a phone call, or a lawyer.
A quick, honest note.
This map is still growing. The vacancy reports, land records and travel-time data behind it come from real public sources, but they're not perfect: some listings go out of date, some scores are rough estimates, and not everything that looks empty is actually available.
Ownership and legal status always need checking before you make any plans. Treat every score here as a starting point for your own homework — never as a guarantee.