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Hong Kong · Office search guide
By Nextspace, expert broker · Last verified: September 2026 · 9 min read
Finding an office in Hong Kong comes down to three options: a coworking space, a serviced office, or a traditional office of your own. Coworking starts from about HK$3,500 a month for a dedicated desk and from HK$6,000 for an office space inside a coworking centre. A serviced office starts from about HK$5,000 a month. A traditional office is leased bare, so everything you see in the other two is yours to build. What separates them is not really the price. It is how much of the working environment is already there when you arrive, and how much of it you have to make yourself. Nextspace is a free office broker in Hong Kong, paid by operators rather than by clients, and below is how the three actually compare.
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Coworking, serviced office or traditional office
Serviced office: from HK$5,000 a month.
Traditional office: quoted per square foot, before fit-out, furniture and IT.
Coworking space
- Everything is already there: reception, meeting rooms, pantry, printing, phone booths, high-speed internet and cleaning
- A Grade A building and a front desk that greets your visitors, without holding the floor
- Busy and social. Other companies around you, events, and the incidental contact that comes with sharing a floor
- Month to month, so headcount can move without a penalty
- In this week, with nothing to buy, build or manage
- No door of your own on the open floor, so calls and confidential work mean booking a room
- The environment is set by the operator and by whoever else is on the floor that day
- Noise and desk availability rise and fall with how full the centre is
- Meeting rooms come on credits, and a team that meets daily will run through them
- You cannot brand the space or make it feel like yours
Serviced office
- A private, lockable room with your company name on the door
- Furnished, wired and staffed on day one. No fit-out, no furniture order, no IT install
- A quiet, self-contained environment inside a professional floor, with a staffed reception handling your visitors, calls and mail
- Meeting rooms, pantry, cleaning and utilities all run by someone else
- A 6 or 12 month commitment, and room to move to a larger suite in the same building if you agree it at signing
- You are a guest on someone else’s floor, sharing their reception, pantry and meeting rooms
- The room is the room. Knocking walls through or changing the layout is not on offer
- Branding is usually limited to a nameplate and whatever you put on your own walls
- Meeting-room time beyond the allowance and after-hours air conditioning are extra
- Less incidental contact with other companies than an open coworking floor
When a traditional office makes sense
A traditional office is bare space taken direct from a landlord, usually on a three-year term. It is the only one of the three where you build the environment yourself, and that cuts both ways.
- A whole floor or unit that is unmistakably yours, with your own front door and no shared reception
- You design the layout around how your company actually works: the meeting rooms you need, the quiet rooms you need, the kitchen where you want it
- Your own culture sets the noise level, the hours and the feel of the place
- Room to grow inside space you already hold, instead of renegotiating for it
- Nothing exists on day one. Fit-out, furniture, cabling, air conditioning zoning, all of it is yours to specify and pay for
- You run the building relationship: cleaning, security passes, repairs, contractors
- Reception, IT support and meeting-room booking become someone’s job, usually an office manager you now have to hire
- Three to six months from signature to the first day anyone can sit down
- Space is let in lots far larger than a small team needs, so you carry empty desks for years
The turn comes somewhere around thirty people. Below that you are buying an environment you could rent complete, and paying for it twice: once in fit-out and once in the time it takes to run. Above it, the building starts working for you rather than the other way round, and having your own front door stops being a vanity and starts being how clients and staff read the company.
How to look for an office in Hong Kong
Step 1: size the team you will be, not the team you are
Almost every failed office search starts here. A company signs for the headcount it has on the day it looks, outgrows the room in eight months, and pays to move twice.
Take the number you expect in twelve months and multiply by 29 sq ft. That is the median across 2,078 offices we have quoted, and half the market sits between 25.6 and 33.3 sq ft a head.
Below about 23 sq ft a head the room is tight enough that you should stand in it before signing. Above 40 you are paying for space you will not use, unless the room shape forced it.
Step 2: choose the district before the building
Settle the district first, or every set of options you see will be a different argument. Two questions decide it: where do your clients expect to meet you, and where do your staff commute from. Central and Admiralty buy you the address and the lift lobby that goes with it. Sheung Wan, Wan Chai and Causeway Bay sit a few minutes away with a different character and a different price. Quarry Bay, Tai Koo and Kwun Tong trade the postcode for newer buildings, bigger floor plates and more space per person.
Pick two districts, not six. A search that spans the island and Kowloon is really three separate searches, and it takes three times as long to reach a decision.
Step 3: view properly, and view fewer
Three or four viewings, chosen well, beat ten chosen badly. A floor plan and a photograph tell you almost nothing about what it is like to work somewhere. What to check on site:
- Natural light and the window line. An internal room at the same rate is not the same room, and your team will feel the difference every day.
- Noise, at a working hour. Sit in the space for five minutes at 11am, not at 8am when it is empty. Listen for the pantry, the corridor and the lift lobby.
- The shared areas at their busiest. Reception at 10am, the meeting rooms at 11, the pantry at 1pm. If they are full when you visit, they will be full when you need them.
- How many meeting rooms there are, and how they are booked. Ask how often the good one is taken, and what happens when it is.
- Air conditioning hours. When it switches off, what it costs after that, and whether the room is bearable in August at 7pm.
- The route in. Lift wait at 9am is a real cost paid daily by everyone you employ. Time it yourself.
- The people already there. On a shared floor you are buying their company as much as the operator’s. Look at who is at the desks.
Step 4: settle the terms, not just the room
Four things are far easier to agree at signing, while the operator is still competing for you, than at any point after you move in:
- Expansion. First refusal on the room next door, and a stated arrangement for a larger suite in the same building if you grow.
- The renewal, as a capped percentage or a stated second-term rate rather than a conversation to be had later.
- Meeting-room credits, if your team meets more than the allowance assumes.
- After-hours air conditioning, in writing, with the hours and the rate.
Companies that use Nextspace save an average of 32% against standard pricing, and most of that comes from the terms rather than the headline number.
Step 5: the whole search, in six lines
- Fix the headcount you expect in twelve months and size the room at 29 sq ft a head.
- Decide the district before the building, and keep it to two.
- Ask every operator the same questions about amenities, meeting rooms and hours.
- Ask what is excluded before comparing anything.
- See the final three in person, at a working hour.
- Settle expansion and renewal at signing.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find office space in Hong Kong?
Start from the headcount you expect in twelve months, size the room at about 29 sq ft a person, pick the district, then compare all-in monthly quotes on the same term. A broker does the sourcing and the negotiation at no cost to you, because operators pay the fee.
How much does an office cost in Hong Kong?
Coworking starts from about HK$3,500 a month for a dedicated desk and from HK$6,000 for an office space inside a coworking centre. A serviced office starts from about HK$5,000 a month. Those are entry points: what you pay turns on the building, the floor and the district.
How much space does a 10-person team need in Hong Kong?
About 290 sq ft. The median across the offices we quote is 29 sq ft a person, and the middle half of the market sits between 25.6 and 33.3 sq ft a head.
What is the difference between coworking and a serviced office?
Coworking gives you a desk or a small room on a shared floor, with reception, meeting rooms, pantry and internet all provided, from about HK$3,500 a month for a dedicated desk. A serviced office gives you a private, lockable room with your company name on the door and the same services around it, from about HK$5,000 a month. The difference you are paying for is the door and the quiet behind it.
Should a small company in Hong Kong sign its own office?
Generally not below about thirty people. You would be building an environment you could rent complete: a full fit-out, furniture, IT, cleaning and reception, plus someone to run all of it. Space is also let in lots far larger than a small team needs.
How long does it take to move into a Hong Kong office?
A coworking space the same week and a serviced office within days to a few weeks. A traditional office takes three to six months once fit-out is included.
Does a Hong Kong office broker cost anything?
Not to the client. Operators and landlords pay a commission on a successful placement, so the search, the viewings and the negotiation are free to the company taking the space.
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