Question 1

What does it cost to seat a team of five?

Accepted Answer

Two ways to do it, and the catalogue prices both. Five coworking memberships at the median rate come to about £910 a month. A private room sized for five — 799 listings in the catalogue between 25 and 60 m² — has a median of £1,540, so the typical room is closer to double the desks. The catch is the spread: the cheapest tenth of those rooms start at £780, and 106 of them — about 13% — are priced below five desks outright. Which means the format does not decide the bill; the individual building does. Shortlist both and compare the actual rooms. Compare private offices · compare coworking.

Question 2

At what point is a private office cheaper than desks?

Accepted Answer

On the medians, later than most people expect. A desk runs £182 a month and a room for a small team £1,540, so a median room only pays for itself at about 8.5 people. Take the cheaper end of the room market instead — the tenth at £780 — and the crossover falls to roughly 4.3 people. The smallest private rooms on the site are 4 m², so a pair can take a door of their own long before the maths says they should, if they value the door. Both numbers come from this catalogue rather than a market survey, and the gap between operators in one city is usually wider than the gap between the two formats.

Question 3

How much floor space does one person actually need?

Accepted Answer

UK flexible-space operators plan on roughly 6–10 m² per desk once you count the desk, circulation and a share of the meeting rooms. That is the arithmetic behind the sizes you see here: the median room in the catalogue is 65 m², which is a team of about two to four. Treat the m² figure on a listing as the room, not as the number of people the operator will let you put in it — the fire and building limits are theirs to confirm, and they do it on enquiry.

Question 4

What is included in the monthly price, and what is billed on top?

Accepted Answer

For serviced offices and coworking the monthly figure normally carries the space, business rates, utilities, cleaning, reception and building Wi-Fi. Meeting-room hours beyond an allowance, parking, secure racks, extra passes and printing are the usual extras. We publish the rate the operator quoted for that room, not a bundled market average — what is inside that rate differs between operators, so it is worth asking for the inclusions in writing along with availability. Virtual offices and business addresses are quoted per month with no floor space at all, which is why they carry no per-m² rate here.

Question 5

Where is there a real choice of buildings, and where is there not?

Accepted Answer

Honestly: the depth varies a lot. 23 towns and cities have five or more buildings in the catalogue, which is enough to compare and negotiate. Another 137 have one or two — there you are choosing a building, not a market. The largest sets are London (93 buildings), Manchester (54), Glasgow (24) and Edinburgh (19). If your shortlist is in a thin town, it is usually worth checking the nearest larger one before you commit. See every town and city we cover.

Question 6

Why might the operator quote a different price from the one shown here?

Accepted Answer

Because the number here is a catalogue entry and theirs is today's availability. Flexible-space pricing moves with occupancy: a floor that is filling up gets dearer, a floor with three empty rooms gets a discount that never appears in any list. We publish what the operator gave us for that room and pass your enquiry straight to them; the rate that counts is the one they confirm for the space you picked, and it can land either side of ours.

Question 7

Does it matter which operator runs the building?

Accepted Answer

The catalogue covers 20 operators, and the differences are practical rather than cosmetic: how meeting-room credits work, whether a membership is usable in their other buildings, what notice period they ask for, how the reception is staffed. The building decides the commute; the operator decides the day-to-day. Both are on every listing, so you can shortlist by either.

Question 8

How much does a coworking space cost in the UK?

Accepted Answer

The catalogue holds 522 coworking listings in 173 towns and cities. The median is £182 a month per desk, and the cheapest tenth are £128 a month or less. Every figure here is what the operator quoted for that particular desk — these are catalogue numbers, not a market survey, and the operator confirms the current rate when you enquire. Browse coworking across the UK.

Question 9

How much does a serviced office cost?

Accepted Answer

There are 2,898 private office listings in 173 towns and cities, and they are the bulk of the catalogue. The median suite in the catalogue is 65 m² at £2,494 a month; the cheapest tenth are £560 a month or less. The smallest rooms on the site are 4 m², so a two-person team can still take a private office rather than a desk. Browse serviced offices across the UK.

Question 10

What is the difference between a virtual office and a registered business address?

Accepted Answer

A business address gives you the address itself, for your post and your paperwork: 465 listings, median £72 a month, with the cheapest tenth at £56 or less. A virtual office is the same address plus the services an operator sells around it — mail handling, call answering, meeting rooms by the hour — and costs more: 465 listings, median £104 a month. What exactly is bundled differs from operator to operator, so we publish the address and the monthly price and leave the package to them. Neither format comes with floor space, which is why both are shown as a price per month and not as a rate per m². Virtual offices · Registered business addresses.

Question 11

Can I register a company at one of these addresses?

Accepted Answer

That is what the 930 virtual office and business address listings in the catalogue are sold as. Whether a particular address may be used for your Companies House registration and for HMRC post is the operator’s decision, not ours — we are neither the operator nor the landlord. Send an enquiry on the address you want and the operator confirms it for that building before you pay anything.

Question 12

How long do I have to commit for?

Accepted Answer

All 4,350 listings in 553 buildings are quoted as a monthly price, because this is how flexible workspace is sold in the UK: by the month, not on a multi-year lease with a rent review. The minimum term itself is set by the operator and differs from building to building, and we do not sign the agreement, so we cannot fix a term on their behalf. Ask on the listing you like and the term comes back with the availability.

Question 13

Do you charge tenants a fee or commission?

Accepted Answer

No. Searching, comparing and enquiring is free for the tenant, and there is nothing to sign up for: all 553 buildings, 4,350 listings and 173 cities are open to read without an account. We are not the operator and not the landlord — we publish their space and pass your enquiry on. See the whole catalogue.

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