Office Flex Space for Lease, Fully Fitted: What Is Included and What Is Not

What each label on a fitted floor does and does not promise

• Prebuilt: the landlord built the floor on spec, before a tenant was found. Expect rooms and a pantry. Furniture is not implied.
• Furnished: desks, chairs and tables are in place. The word says nothing about who owns them.
• Move-in ready: no construction is needed. The floor may or may not be furnished.
• Plug and play: furnished and cabled, so a team can connect and start. Often used for a sublease where the last tenant's setup remains.
• Fully fitted: the broadest claim and the loosest. Take it to mean built, furnished and wired, then check each of the three.

The fitted-floor checklist: usually in place, and what to confirm in writing

Usually in place on a floor sold as fitted:

• A pantry.
• Conference rooms.
• An open area for desks.
• Furniture, where the listing says furnished.
• Wiring to the desks.

Confirm in writing before you sign:

• The furniture inventory, item by item, and who owns each piece.
• Internet: whether a circuit is live, and whose contract it is.
• What stays when the term ends, and what you must remove or restore.

What you still bring: your own computers and phones, your insurance certificates and your IT setup.

Timing and cost: a fitted floor against building your own

A fitted floor can be in use two to four weeks after you sign. Building one to order takes 10 to 16 weeks. On cost, a prebuilt often asks more per square foot than a raw floor in the same building, because the landlord's construction is folded into the rent. What you avoid is the buildout itself, which runs $50 to $150 a square foot when it is custom, and the furniture. Still on top of the rent are the security deposit and electricity, which runs about $2 to $4 a square foot annually.

How Nomad checks a fitted floor, and what can still change

Before a lease is signed we walk the floor against the listing: a punch-list visit, the inventory compared with what is actually there, the cabling confirmed ready, and the air conditioning hours checked against the hours you work.

If the layout needs to change, light customization such as a moved partition or an added room is handled by Nomad's construction management team, with the landlord's consent. Larger changes give back the speed you chose the floor for.

Why the floors below are in SoHo

SoHo's stock is cast-iron loft buildings from the 1870s, with ceilings of twelve to fourteen feet and very large windows, favored by design-led and consumer companies. Most of the district is landmarked, which can slow construction, and that is a practical argument for a floor that is already fitted. The block shows the SoHo floors we list. Which of them come furnished or prebuilt changes with the book, and the furnished floors page marks the ones that do. What pre-built means has the detail.