Office Space Finder for NYC Startups: Five Inputs In, a Shortlist Out
An office space finder for a startup needs five inputs: headcount, move-in date, monthly budget, neighborhoods and lease term. From those, a first shortlist can be ready within 24 hours, showing the size, address and asking rent of each floor. If you would prefer to search alone first, this site has the tools: a calculator that turns headcount into square feet and monthly cost, floors grouped by team size and by budget, and every available floor on one page. Using Nomad usually costs a tenant nothing out of pocket, because in most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee.
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Find floors for my teamUpdated 2026-10-03 · Nomad Group
The five inputs, and what each one decides
- Headcount sets the size. Enter the team you expect a year from now, not only the one you have.
- The move-in date sets the route. A finder can return furnished floors, ready two to four weeks after a lease is signed, or floors needing a custom buildout, which typically takes 10 to 16 weeks.
- The monthly budget sets the rent per square foot you can afford: twelve months of budget, divided by the square feet.
- Neighborhoods set the commute. Two or three are enough.
- The term sets the price. One year is the shortest private-floor term you can enter, two or three are more usual, and the briefer the commitment the more each square foot costs.
What size a startup needs, worked from the first input
Allow 175 square feet per person. That is rentable area, and it includes each person's share of the meeting rooms and the kitchen. Fifteen people come to about 2,625 square feet. A densely seated team can enter 140 a head, and one that expects to hire should enter 15 to 25 percent more.
The block below holds the floors on our book that suit about 15 people.
The self-serve tools for a founder who wants to look first
- The office space calculator takes a headcount and returns the square feet and what they would cost each month.
- Office space by team size groups floors for 10, 20, 30, 50, 75 and 100 people.
- Office space by budget groups them by asking rent.
- Every available floor is on one page, each with its size and address and nearly all with an asking rent.
What a person adds to the finder
A tool can only show what is published. Send the five inputs and a broker reaches out within the hour during business hours. A first shortlist can be ready within 24 hours, and it also draws on subleases and floors that are not on public sites. You also get a plain read on each floor: what it would cost to set up, how soon you could move in and where there is room to negotiate. If nothing fits, we say so.
Floors that fit a team of 15
Live from our listings · 6 of the 8, smallest firstA team of 15 plans on about 2,625 square feet at 175 a person. 8 floors on our book sit in the range that fits, 2,625 to 4,725 square feet, asking $44 to $115 per square foot per year.
- Floors
- 8
- Sizes
- 2,937-4,109 sq ft
- Asking rent
- $44-$115 / sq ft
- 153 West 27th Street, Partial 11th Floor 2,937 sq ft $60/sq ft Chelsea about 17 people
- 900 Broadway, Partial 9th Floor 2,940 sq ft $92/sq ft Flatiron about 17 people
- 153 W 27th Street, Partial 3rd Floor 2,978 sq ft $44/sq ft Chelsea about 17 people
- 115 West 30th Street, Partial 4th Floor 3,500 sq ft $55/sq ft Chelsea about 20 people
- 110 Greene Street, Partial 5th Floor 3,750 sq ft $95/sq ft SoHo about 21 people
- 1450 Broadway, Entire 40th Floor 4,109 sq ft $95/sq ft Bryant Park about 23 people
The full guide
This page is the short answer. The long one, with the numbers worked through, is here:
Related topics
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Can a founder use the finder without talking to anyone?
Yes. The calculator, the size and budget pages and the full list of floors are open, with no form in the way. When you want a shortlist built for you, send the inputs through the start page.
What does it cost a startup to use Nomad as its office space finder?
In most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee, so a tenant usually pays nothing out of pocket for the search; the commission terms on each deal confirm it. The tools on this site are open to anyone. When a broker takes over, ask at that point what you would be signing and whether any fee could come to you.
What if only three of the five inputs are known?
Headcount, timing and budget are enough for a first shortlist. Neighborhoods and term sharpen it, and both are easier to decide once you have seen real floors with real rents.
Does the finder include coworking desks?
No. Our listings are private floors in Manhattan. For comparison, a coworking desk runs roughly $800 to $1,400 a month, and below about 15 people desks usually cost less than a floor of your own. A team of 15 is at the point where it is worth pricing both.
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
- 300+ officesdelivered in New York, 2M+ sq ft leased
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