Office space in Chinatown, Singapore

Most offices in Chinatown are in restored shophouses. The district was gazetted for conservation in 1989, so the streets stay low and the rooms stay compact. The Working Capitol at 1 Keong Saik Road runs through a row of joined shophouses, and The Working Capitol at 1A Club Street sits on a street that closes for outdoor dining on weekends.

There are towers too. WeWork at 22 Cross Street stands between Chinatown and Telok Ayer stations, and N9 Offices has rooms in Chinatown Point, the mall joined to Chinatown station by an underground walkway. On the river side, Spaces at Park Regis Tower and The Hive on Carpenter Street sit inside the old Clarke Quay warehouse district.

The centres we price include 1 Keong Saik Road, 22 Cross Street, 269 South Bridge Road, 37 Smith Street, Chinatown Point and the two riverside centres, among others. Tell us what your team needs and we will arrange the viewings.

Chinatown station is on the North East line and the Downtown line. Exit A comes up on Pagoda Street, and an underground exit runs straight into the basement of Chinatown Point. For the Cross Street side, Telok Ayer station on the Downtown line is one stop south and often closer.

The buildings at Clarke Quay sit by Clarke Quay station on the North East line, one stop north. The airport is about 35 minutes away, with one change at Expo.

Chinatown suits a team that wants the city centre without a tower lobby. The financial district is one or two stops away, and the office is a shophouse room with a food street outside.

It suits a team that eats lunch out. Maxwell Food Centre, Amoy Street Food Centre and Chinatown Complex are all a few minutes on foot, and the restaurants on Club Street and Keong Saik Road fill up at noon.

It suits a team that commutes from the north east or along the Downtown line. Both lines meet at Chinatown station.

Price is worth a look before you visit. Asking prices here run from S$479 to S$900 per person for the same team of four, so the choice of building matters more than the district.

Chinatown is a working neighbourhood and a visitor attraction at the same time. The streets around Pagoda Street fill with tourists from mid morning, and shophouse offices mean stairs, compact rooms and no grand lobby. Most teams take the food, the character and the location, and accept the crowds.

Chinatown sits at the western edge of the financial district, with Raffles Place to the east, Tanjong Pagar to the south and City Hall across the river. The figures below show what one person pays a month for a private office for four, averaged from the centres we price.

Each district has its own character. Office space in Raffles Place is a ten minute walk and moves the address into the banking towers. Office space in Tanjong Pagar has the same shophouse streets with newer towers mixed in. Office space near City Hall swaps the market streets for the Civic District. All averages from Nextspace's own listings on 2 October 2026.

Asking rents in the Chinatown and River Valley precinct averaged S$8.45 per square foot a month in September 2026, up 0.8 per cent from June, in a guide tracking three buildings in the precinct. The wider market is tighter. Core CBD Grade A rents reached S$12.75 per square foot a month in the third quarter of 2026, the strongest quarterly rise since 2022, and Grade A vacancy fell to 2.6 per cent. With little new supply before 2028, the room, the term and the fit out are where a better deal sits, not a fall in rents.

The centres we price in Chinatown ask between S$479 and S$900 per person a month for a team of four today, across shophouses, malls and towers a few minutes apart. Name your team size and we will point you to the two or three buildings worth a visit.