Startup Office Brokerage for the Move Out of Coworking
A team of 15 to 25 leaving coworking needs a commercial real estate brokerage company that knows furnished floors, prebuilt floors, subleases and short terms, because on this move speed and a short commitment matter more than a custom layout. Test any company on that: how many such floors it placed recently, the shortest term it has closed, and how quickly those teams moved in. Nomad's startup office brokerage builds a shortlist of move-in-ready floors and, through Flex by Nomad, offers furnished private floors, typically for 12, 24 or 36 months. On a furnished floor a team is usually in two to four weeks after it signs.
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Send me move-in-ready floorsUpdated 2026-10-03 · Nomad Group
Why the first floor after coworking is a different brief
A company leaving coworking is used to arriving on Monday and working. It owns no furniture, employs no office manager and often has a membership that ends on a fixed date. So the brief turns the usual order upside down: the move-in date comes first, the length of the commitment second, the layout last. A custom buildout belongs to a later office. The first one is usually a floor somebody has already built.
The rule of thumb, in one line: under about 15 people the desk memberships usually win on cost, and past about 20 a floor of your own usually does. When to leave coworking covers the timing.
Three questions for a brokerage company before you leave coworking
- How many furnished floors, prebuilt floors and subleases did you place in the past year? A company that mostly does long direct leases will steer you toward one.
- What is the shortest term you have closed on a private floor? A year is possible in Manhattan, and a broker who has never done it may tell you otherwise.
- How long after signing did those teams move in? Listen for weeks, with examples.
Ask for the answers with company names or, where clients are confidential, with real terms and the names removed.
What Nomad's startup office brokerage does on this move
- Builds a shortlist of move-in-ready floors: furnished, prebuilt and sublease space, each with a size and an asking rent.
- Tours them with you in one afternoon.
- Restates every offer as a cost per person per month, so it can be set against your coworking invoice.
- Offers Flex by Nomad: furnished, serviced private floors, typically for 12, 24 or 36 months.
- Plans the overlap, so the membership ends after the new floor opens and not before.
On a furnished floor, move-in usually comes two to four weeks after signing.
Furnished and prebuilt floors for a team coming out of coworking
The block below shows the furnished and prebuilt floors on offer through Nomad, the kind this move usually ends on. Sizes and asking rents are in the block and change as floors lease. Every furnished and move-in-ready floor is also gathered on one page, with its neighborhood. Subleases are not always advertised, so ask about those directly.
Furnished and prebuilt floors available now
Live from our listings · 6 of the 24, cheapest first24 floors we list are furnished or prebuilt, so a team can move in without running its own buildout. They run from 2,500 to 19,097 square feet, asking $44 to $135 per square foot per year.
- Floors
- 24
- Sizes
- 2,500-19,097 sq ft
- Asking rent
- $44-$135 / sq ft
- 115 West 30th Street, Partial 4th Floor 3,500 sq ft $55/sq ft Chelsea furnished
- 1235 Broadway, Entire 4th Floor 9,500 sq ft $62/sq ft NoMad furnished
- 17 State Street, Partial 26th Floor 6,606 sq ft $79/sq ft FiDi prebuilt
- 110 Greene Street, Partial 5th Floor 3,750 sq ft $95/sq ft SoHo furnished
- 104-110 Greene Street, Partial 11th Floor 5,375 sq ft $110/sq ft SoHo furnished, move-in ready
- 503-511 Broadway, Penthouse 5,552 sq ft $125/sq ft SoHo furnished
The full guide
This page is the short answer. The long one, with the numbers worked through, is here:
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Who pays the broker when a startup leaves coworking for a private floor?
In most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee, and a furnished or flexible lease of a private floor works the same way. A sublease is the usual exception: there the fee normally comes from the tenant handing the space on. Ask the brokerage company to confirm the arrangement for each floor on your shortlist.
We are 12 people. Should we stay in coworking?
Probably for now, unless hiring will take you past 15 soon. At your size the desk memberships usually cost less once furniture, internet and cleaning are counted. If the plan reaches 20 within the year, start touring a few months ahead, so the move happens on your schedule and not the operator's.
Do we need to buy furniture for a first private floor?
Not on a furnished floor, and often not on a sublease, where the space is frequently handed over built and furnished. A prebuilt floor has its rooms and wiring in place and may or may not include desks, so check each listing. Pre-built space explains the differences.
How short a lease can a 20-person team get on its own floor?
A year is the practical minimum on a private floor, two and three year terms are more common, and a shorter commitment generally costs more per square foot. A sublease can be shorter still, though its length is fixed by what is left on the original tenant's lease.
Talk to a broker
Want this answered for your team?
Tell us three things: team size, timing, budget. A first shortlist can be ready within 24 hours, with the asking rent on every floor that publishes one.
- Within the houra broker reaches out during business hours, no automated triage
- On your sidewe work for you on your search, and the landlord usually pays our fee
- Open pricingasking rent published for 46 of 49 floors, size and address for all
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