Commercial Office Space in New York City: Discovering What Is Really Available

To discover what commercial office space New York City really has available, a high-growth team needs a survey more than a search box. Published listings show part of the market. A survey adds the wider direct market, subleases and space that has not been advertised, then measures all of it against the brief. For about 75 people that means floors near 13,000 rentable square feet. Nomad runs the survey and, on your search, works for you. It also offers agency leasing and owner representation, and says so plainly. In most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee.

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Updated 2026-10-03 · Nomad Group

What a survey of commercial space for lease in NYC covers

Our own listings: floors Nomad represents, each published with its size and address, and most with an asking rent.
The wider direct market: space other landlords and their agents are offering, whether or not a rent is advertised.
Subleases: floors a tenant no longer needs and is offering for what is left of its term, often furnished and for less than a direct lease.
Off-market space: floors that will come free but have not been listed, which brokers tend to hear of first.

We cannot promise that an unlisted floor exists at your size in a given month. What a survey does is make sure that if it does, you see it next to the published ones. The sublease playbook covers the checks a sublease needs.

How much space 75 people need

At 175 square feet per person, 75 people need about 13,125 rentable square feet. A dense open plan at about 140 each brings that down to 10,500, and a layout with many private offices at about 225 takes it up to nearly 16,900. A team still hiring usually adds 15 to 25 percent to the base figure.

The block below shows floors sized for about 75 people, with the rent and square footage of each.

How the brief turns a survey into a shortlist

A survey for a team this size can return a long list. The brief cuts it. Headcount now and in 12 to 18 months sets the size band. The move-in date decides whether a floor that needs a custom buildout, typically 10 to 16 weeks of work, is still possible. The budget sets the rent range, and where people live sets the neighborhoods.

What survives all four is the shortlist, usually three to five floors, and it can be toured in one afternoon.

Who the broker running your survey works for

Ask this of any firm before the survey starts. On a tenant's search, Nomad works for the tenant: the survey, the shortlist and the negotiation are run for the company that will occupy the space.

Nomad also offers agency leasing and owner representation, so some buildings in a survey may be ones it leases for their owners. If such a building reaches your shortlist, that is dual agency. New York requires the informed consent of both the tenant and the owner before one firm acts for the two of them, so it has to be disclosed. Ask which buildings on your list it applies to before you tour them. How our brokerage works describes both sides of the practice.

Terms of engagement for a survey

Settle the terms of engagement before a survey begins: what the broker wants signed, for how long, and whether any fee could fall to the company. Put that to us as you would to any other firm. In most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee, and it is worth asking every broker you speak to how the fee works on your deal. To start, send headcount, timing and budget, and a broker reaches out within the hour during business hours.

Floors that fit a team of 75

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A team of 75 plans on about 13,125 square feet at 175 a person. 6 floors on our book sit in the range that fits, 13,125 to 23,625 square feet, asking $56 to $130 per square foot per year on the 5 with a published rent.

Floors: 6
Sizes: 13,266-19,097 sq ft
Asking rent: $56-$130 / 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:

What does a survey find that a listings site does not?

Space that was never published: subleases passed between brokers, and floors a landlord knows will come free. It also adds judgment to what is published, such as which floors can really be had by your date. Published listings are where a search starts, and every available floor on our list is open to browse.

Can a team of 75 take a sublease?

Yes, when the remaining term fits the plan and the space works as it stands. Subleases are usually faster and cheaper than direct space and often come furnished. The catch is that you inherit the original tenant's lease terms, so the lease above yours has to be read, by your attorney as well as by you, before you commit.

Does Nomad have off-market floors nobody else can show us?

We do not claim exclusive access. Unadvertised space reaches brokers through landlords and other tenants, and a survey is how we look for it on your behalf. Some months it turns up a floor that fits, and some months it does not.

How early should a 75-person company begin the survey?

Give it nine to twelve months ahead of the day the space is needed, if a custom buildout is likely. With construction, a move runs four to six months from the first tour to working desks, and the survey comes before that first tour.

Talk to a broker

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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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