Office Space for Rent, Narrowed to a Shortlist: What Is on It and How It Is Chosen

A growing team that has outgrown browsing office space rentals does not need more listings to find office space for rent. It needs a shortlist: three to five floors chosen against its own brief, each shown with its size, asking rent, address, condition and the date it could be occupied. Nomad builds one from your headcount, timing and budget. A broker reaches out within the hour during business hours, and a first shortlist can be ready within 24 hours. You mark it up, we revise it, and the floors that survive are toured in one afternoon. In most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee.

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Updated 2026-10-03 · Nomad Group

The five things a shortlist says about each floor

Size, in rentable square feet, with the headcount it holds at 175 square feet per person.
Asking rent, per square foot per year, and the monthly figure that follows from it.
Address and floor, so the commute can be checked before anyone visits.
Condition: raw, pre-built or furnished, which tells you whether construction lies ahead.
Timing: the earliest date the floor could realistically be yours.

A list is usually three to five floors long. With two there is no real choice, and with eight the choosing has not been done yet.

How floors are picked for a team that is still growing

We start from the number the team will be, not the number it is. For the block on this page that is about 35 people, or roughly 6,100 rentable square feet, and more if hiring continues. The budget then sets a rent range, and where people live sets the neighborhoods.

The search draws on three sources: Nomad's own list, direct space other landlords are marketing, and space that is not on public sites, meaning subleases and floors an owner has yet to advertise. Those tend to reach brokers first. A floor makes the shortlist when it fits the size, the rent range and the date, and we note where it falls short on anything else.

Turnaround: from three numbers to a list of floors

Send headcount, move-in timing and a monthly budget. A broker reaches out within the hour during business hours to check the details, and a first shortlist can be ready within 24 hours. Neighborhood preferences and must-haves sharpen it, and they can follow later. The shortlist guide has the short version of what goes in and what comes back.

Marking up the shortlist before the tour

Treat the first list as a draft. Strike the floors that miss, say why, and rank the rest. The reasons are worth more than the ranking: a note that a floor is too dark or too far west changes what we send next. The first list will not always hold the floor you end up leasing, and it is not meant to. Its job is to find out what you prefer.

Then tour. What remains fits in one afternoon, seen back to back so the differences are obvious. How to tour office space is the checklist for the afternoon itself.

What the shortlist costs a tenant

A broker's commission follows a signed lease, and in most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee. Sending your three numbers is an inquiry, and an inquiry commits you to nothing. When the broker calls to check the details, ask what you would sign, and whether any fee could reach you, before the list turns into tours. On a tenant's search, we work for the tenant.

Floors that fit a team of 35

Live from our listings · 6 of the 16, smallest first

A team of 35 plans on about 6,125 square feet at 175 a person. 16 floors on our book sit in the range that fits, 6,125 to 11,025 square feet, asking $43 to $200 per square foot per year on the 14 with a published rent.

Floors: 16
Sizes: 6,350-10,562 sq ft
Asking rent: $43-$200 / sq ft

Every available floor, filterable by size →

The full guide

This page is the short answer. The long one, with the numbers worked through, is here:

How is a shortlist different from filtering listings myself?

A filter returns everything that matches a size or a price. A shortlist is a judgment: a few floors someone has checked against your date, your commute and your growth, including space no filter can see because it was never published. You can do the first part alone, and every available floor is there for it.

Will the shortlist include floors Nomad does not list?

Yes, where they fit. Our list is one source. The rest comes from other landlords' direct space, subleases and floors not yet advertised. Nomad also offers agency leasing and owner representation, so where a floor is in a building it leases for the owner, we tell you: that would be dual agency, which can only proceed once you and the owner have both given informed consent.

Do the asking rents on a shortlist include electricity?

No. Asking rent is base rent. Power is billed separately, at around $2 to $4 for each square foot over a year, and escalations lift the rent annually. The shortlist shows the asking figure so floors can be read on one line, and the fuller cost arrives with the landlords' proposals.

What if our headcount changes after the shortlist arrives?

Tell us and the list is redrawn. Ten more people move the size band by about 1,750 square feet, which usually changes which buildings qualify. Revising a shortlist costs an email, and touring floors that no longer fit costs an afternoon.

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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