Soho Office Space to Rent

From around £385 per desk per month for the most cost effective space with limited amenities. The mid to upper range runs from about £600 to £1,000, and the highest-specification buildings reach £1,200 to £1,800. The area average is around £700.

A desk and a private office in the area, without the design-led fit-out or the amenity floor. For the exposed brick, the interiors and the creative feel that people come to Soho for, expect to start at around £750 per desk.

In all-inclusive managed and serviced pricing, yes. This really matters in Soho because Westminster business rates are notably high, so a headline rate here covers a larger cost than the same rate would in other areas of London.

From the Elizabeth line at Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon is around five minutes, Bond Street around five and Liverpool Street around ten. This has really transformed the area connectivity wise.

Access. Entrances opened directly into the area behind Soho Square, connecting Soho east to Liverpool Street and the City, and west out to Heathrow. It is the single biggest change the area has seen.

Advertising and creative agencies, film and post-production, music production, fashion around Carnaby Street, and talent and representation agencies serving the West End theatres. Soho Square holds film businesses including Dolby and the British Film Institute.

Advertising and creatives arrived in the late eighties and early nineties, post-production followed, and a UK tax relief scheme introduced in the early 2000s for production work done here created a boom that the area never lost.

Low-rise. Height restrictions mean no towers, so most space is townhouse-style property above the restaurants and bars, fitted out behind the original facade. Expect timber floors, exposed brick and beams and large older steel-framed windows.

Often, yes. Floor-plates are small, so a company of 20 to 30 people can frequently take a whole floor with its own meeting room and kitchen, a real perk for a business of this size in a multi tenant space. That is harder to achieve in the City, where floor-plates are far larger.

Tourist volume and the noise that comes with a busy nightlife area, a grittiness that suits some businesses and not others, and small floor-plates that can limit how far a growing company can expand within one building.

It depends how fast. Small floor-plates make it easy to get your own floor at 20 to 30 people and harder to keep expanding within the same building. Somewhere with larger floor-plates handles growth from 25 to 100 more easily. If you are a creative business who loves the buzz of Soho this is the trade off to remain in an office there as you grow.

Depends on the vibe you are after. Fitzrovia has a very similar character but is less gritty, with higher-specification modern developments around Charlotte Street. If you want the creative setting but need an impressive reception for corporate clients, Fitzrovia is usually the better fit.

They are one street apart and completely different markets. Mayfair is hedge funds, investment firms, oil and gas and wealthy international businesses, in prestigious town houses. Soho is creative, independent and deliberately unpolished.

Yes. Despite the different postcode, Covent Garden shares Soho’s creative character and attracts many of the same businesses through its connection to theatre and the arts.

All-inclusive rates cover rent, business rates, utilities, internet, furniture, cleaning, building access and reception, plus shared meeting rooms. In the better buildings that also means gyms, roof terraces and communal areas suitable for informal client meetings.

Serviced offices are set up to move into pretty much immediately (as long as you are not waiting for anyone to vacate the office). Once a licence agreement is signed and deposit paid you can usually be in within a matter of weeks, if not days.