Soho is the most expensive place in London to rent a desk, and the reason is not the one you think. Wezoo lists 8 private offices in Soho, all inside the W1D and W1F streets, at a median of £941 per desk per month — 57% above the Greater London median of £601. This guide breaks down what office space Soho really costs, why the headline number is misleading, and where the same working day costs half as much eight minutes away.
We pulled every private-office suite Wezoo publishes across Greater London — 283 buildings, 227 with published prices, 3,781 suites — and then took the eight that sit inside Soho proper. What came back reframes the whole question. Office space Soho carries a genuine premium. It is just half the size the market thinks it is.
Wezoo snapshot — Soho private offices (July 2026)
- 8 private-office buildings inside Soho (W1D / W1F), 6 with published prices
- 40 suites, from 2 to 24 desks — median suite size 5 desks
- Price range: £660 to £1,242 per desk per month
- Median: £941 per desk per month (Greater London: £601)
- Availability: 31 of 40 suites (78%) are available now
- Top operators: Fora, WeWork, Runway East
Every figure below is drawn from that dataset. For the wider picture, start with our complete guide to private office space.
Office space Soho: what a desk actually costs in 2026
A private office in Soho runs from £660 to £1,242 per desk per month, all-in. The median door charges £941. The cheapest whole suite on the platform right now is a two-desk room at Medius House for £1,890 a month; the cheapest per-head is Runway East’s 19-desk floor on Old Compton Street at £660.
Put Soho next to the districts it competes with and it sits at the top. These are median desk rates for every priced Wezoo building within 800 metres of each district’s landmark:
| District | Median £/desk/month | Priced buildings |
|---|---|---|
| Soho | £865 | 24 |
| Mayfair | £750 | 17 |
| Shoreditch | £700 | 19 |
| Liverpool Street | £680 | 48 |
| Clerkenwell | £632 | 16 |
| Old Street | £594 | 24 |
| Canary Wharf | £509 | 4 |
| Greater London | £601 | 227 |
Narrow that 800-metre circle down to the eight buildings actually inside Soho and the median climbs again, to £941. The premium tightens as you walk in:
- 0–350 m from Soho Square — £941/desk (6 priced buildings)
- 350–600 m — £883/desk (9)
- 600–800 m — £735/desk (9)
- 800–1,500 m — £702/desk (37)
That gradient is the whole story of office space Soho. Hold onto it — we come back to it below.
Why is office space Soho so expensive?
Half of it is not Soho. It is the fact that Soho does not sell Regus.
Soho’s eight private-office buildings are run by four operators: Fora, WeWork, Runway East and Huckletree, plus a Knotel building on Noel Street. There is not a single Regus, Spaces, HQ or Signature door inside Soho. Not one. And across London those two families of operator price completely differently:
| Operator family | London buildings (priced) | Median £/desk/month |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate houses (Regus, Spaces, HQ, Signature) | 77 | £379 |
| Everyone else (Fora, WeWork, Elementa, LABS, Runway East, Huckletree…) | 150 | £712 |
So before you price a single square foot of Soho, the district has already selected the expensive half of the market. Now do the arithmetic properly.
Take Soho’s four operators and look at what they charge at their other 89 London buildings — Bloomsbury, Borough, Shoreditch, Paddington, everywhere. Median: £752 per desk. That is already 25% above the London median of £601, and it has nothing to do with Soho.
Now compare Soho to those same operators elsewhere: £941 against £752 — a further 25%. Multiply the two and you get 1.25 × 1.25 = 1.57, which is exactly the 57% premium the raw numbers showed.
The Soho premium, split in two
- +25% — operator mix. Soho only sells campus operators. You would pay this anywhere they trade.
- +25% — the postcode. The same operator charges more here than at its own other London doors.
- = +57% over the Greater London median.
Only one of those two halves is Soho. The other is a fact about which brands happen to have signed leases in W1F, and it follows those brands wherever they go.
Office space Soho: the 8 private offices on Wezoo
Listed by walking distance from Soho Square. Private offices are enquiry-based — you tell the operator your headcount and move-in date, and they come back with terms. Prices below are the published monthly starting rates.
1. 16 Great Chapel Street — WeWork (W1F 8FL)
Two minutes from Soho Square and the closest private office in Soho to the district’s centre. Eleven suites on the price list, from a four-desk room at £3,250 a month to a 16-desk floor at £15,000. Nine of the eleven are available now.
- Desk rate: £788–£998/month (median £894)
- Suites: 11, from 4 to 16 desks
- Walk from Soho Square: 155 m
Enquire about 16 Great Chapel Street on Wezoo →
2. Medius House — WeWork (2 Sheraton Street, W1F 8BH)
The deepest ladder in Soho: 14 suites running from a two-desk room at £1,890 a month to a 21-desk floor at £18,350. If you are a founder-plus-one, this is the smallest private door in the district — and it is the only building here that will sell you a two-person office at all.
- Desk rate: £874–£1,130/month (median £989)
- Suites: 14, from 2 to 21 desks
- Walk from Soho Square: 165 m
Enquire about Medius House on Wezoo →
3. 151 Wardour Street — Fora (W1F 8WE)
Wardour Street is the address the film and post-production industry reads without thinking. Two suites listed: six desks at £5,188 a month, and a 15-desk floor at £18,623 — which works out at £1,242 per desk, the highest published rate in Soho. Both available now.
- Desk rate: £865–£1,242/month
- Suites: 2, at 6 and 15 desks
- Walk from Soho Square: 212 m
Enquire about 151 Wardour Street on Wezoo →
4. Runway East Soho — 66 Old Compton Street (W1D 4UH)
The cheapest desk in Soho, and by a clear margin. Four suites — 8, 10, 19 and 24 desks — priced at £660–£690 per desk, roughly 30% below the district median. The 19-desk floor at £12,540 a month is the single best per-head rate inside Soho.
- Desk rate: £660–£690/month (median £690)
- Suites: 4, from 8 to 24 desks
- Walk from Soho Square: 263 m
Enquire about Runway East Soho on Wezoo →
5. 58 Wardour Street — Runway East (W1D 4JQ)
Runway East’s second Soho door, 217 metres down the street from Fora’s. Same street name, different postcode district — 58 Wardour Street is W1D, 151 is W1F. Nobody in the creative industries has ever cared which. This one is enquiry-only: no published rate, so ask for terms against your headcount.
- Desk rate: on request
- Walk from Soho Square: 279 m
Enquire about 58 Wardour Street on Wezoo →
6. Waverley House, Noel Street — Knotel (W1F 8GQ)
A managed-office building rather than a serviced one, which is why there is no rate card: Knotel prices the whole floor against your brief. Sits between Berwick Street market and Great Marlborough Street, three minutes from Oxford Circus.
- Desk rate: on request
- Walk from Soho Square: 314 m
Enquire about Noel Street on Wezoo →
7. Huckletree Soho — Ingestre Court (W1F 0JL)
Three suites: two three-desk rooms at £2,500 a month and an 18-desk floor at £13,500. That 18-desk floor is £750 per desk — the second-cheapest per-head rate in the district — and all three are available now.
- Desk rate: £750–£833/month (median £833)
- Suites: 3, at 3 and 18 desks
- Walk from Soho Square: 317 m
Enquire about Huckletree Soho on Wezoo →
8. 33 Broadwick Street — Fora (W1F 0DQ)
The most expensive building in Soho, and the most consistent: six suites from 6 to 18 desks, every one of them priced between £1,172 and £1,197 per desk. Fora does not discount for volume here — an 18-desk floor costs the same per head as a six-desk room. All six are available now.
- Desk rate: £1,172–£1,197/month (median £1,173)
- Suites: 6, from 6 to 18 desks
- Walk from Soho Square: 345 m
Enquire about 33 Broadwick Street on Wezoo →
What does a Soho postcode actually add to your bill?
Between 25% and 67%, depending on who you rent from — and for two operators, nothing at all.
This is the cleanest test available. Take each Soho building, and compare its desk rate to the median that the same operator charges at its own other London buildings. Same brand, same fit-out standard, same service. The only thing that changes is the postcode.
| Soho building | Operator | Soho £/desk | Same operator, rest of London | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medius House | WeWork | £989 | £593 (26 buildings) | +67% |
| 16 Great Chapel Street | WeWork | £894 | £593 (26 buildings) | +51% |
| 33 Broadwick Street | Fora | £1,173 | £833 (55 buildings) | +41% |
| 151 Wardour Street | Fora | £1,053 | £833 (55 buildings) | +26% |
| Runway East Soho | Runway East | £690 | £735 (5 buildings) | −6% |
| Huckletree Soho | Huckletree | £833 | £883 (5 buildings) | −6% |
WeWork charges 67% more at Medius House than at its own average London door. That is the Soho part of the bill, and it is real.
But look at the bottom two rows. Runway East and Huckletree both price their Soho buildings below their own London average. Two of the six priced doors in Soho are cheaper here than the same brand is elsewhere in the city. So the premium is real, and it is not a rule. It is a decision each operator makes building by building — which is exactly why the district average is the wrong number to shop on. The same lesson turns up in office space Shoreditch, where a single building spreads £628 to £1,176 per desk across its own price list.
Office space Soho vs a five-minute walk
Here is where the gradient pays. Soho has no corporate-operator buildings — but they ring it, and their price lists are flat: one rate, every suite size, no negotiation.
| Building | Operator | Walk from Soho Square | £/desk/month | Suites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spaces Oxford Street | Spaces | 440 m (6 min) | £639 flat | 41 (1–29 desks) |
| Spaces Covent Garden, St Martin’s Lane | Spaces | 549 m (7 min) | £509 flat | 43 (1–153 desks) |
| Regus Piccadilly | Regus | 624 m (8 min) | £449 flat | 42 (1–58 desks) |
| Regus Regent Street St James’s | Regus | 737 m (9 min) | £585 flat | 46 (1–67 desks) |
Eight minutes’ walk from Soho Square, the same desk costs £449 instead of £941. That is £492 per person per month — around £29,500 a year for a five-person team, for a commute difference you could measure with a stopwatch.
Whether that trade is worth making depends entirely on what the address is for. If your clients are in post-production on Wardour Street and your credibility is a W1F letterhead, £941 buys something. If you just need a door that locks and a lift that works, it does not. Nobody can make that call from a spreadsheet — but you should at least know what you are paying for. Plan the walk on Transport for London before you decide it is too far.
The corporate doors also solve the other problem Soho creates: none of them price by the room. A Regus suite costs £449 per desk whether you take three or thirty. Inside Soho, every priced building varies its rate suite by suite — Medius House alone spreads £874 to £1,130 for desks in the same building. Ask which room, not how many desks.
How quickly can you move into office space Soho?
Faster than the rest of London. 31 of the 40 Soho suites (78%) are available now, against 2,491 of 3,781 (66%) across Greater London. The nine that are not run out to autumn 2026: five come free on 1 August, two in September, one in October.
The forward queue is short because Soho’s suites are small. Median suite size here is 5 desks, and the biggest is 24 — this is a district of small teams, and small rooms turn over quickly. If you want 40 people under one roof in W1F, Wezoo does not currently list a suite that will hold them; that search starts on the edge of the district. Compare with private office Canary Wharf, where single floors run to hundreds of desks.
A registered address is a separate question from a desk. If all you need is the postcode on your letterhead, a virtual office in Soho starts an order of magnitude lower. And if you need the room for a day rather than a year, look at a meeting room in Soho instead.
How to choose between the eight
- Two to four people, want the W1F address: Medius House — the only two-desk private room in Soho.
- Best value inside the district: Runway East on Old Compton Street, £660–£690 per desk.
- Client-facing, media sector: 151 Wardour Street or 33 Broadwick Street. You pay for the street, and the street does the work.
- Growing fast: 16 Great Chapel Street runs 4 to 16 desks in one building — you can move up without moving out.
- Price is the deciding factor: walk six minutes and take a flat-rate suite. £449 to £639 per desk, same working day.
Company registration, business rates and licensing all follow the address you pick — the GOV.UK business guidance is the place to check what changes when you move. For a broader view of the market beyond W1, see our guide to office space in the City of London.
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Office space Soho: frequently asked questions
Office space Soho: how much does a private office cost per month?
Per desk, £660 to £1,242 a month, with a median of £941. Whole suites start at £1,890 a month for a two-desk room at Medius House and run to £21,106 for an 18-desk floor at 33 Broadwick Street. Every rate is all-inclusive — furniture, internet, cleaning, utilities and business rates are already in the number.
Office space Soho: why is it more expensive than the rest of London?
About half the gap is the operator mix. Soho has no Regus, Spaces, HQ or Signature buildings, and those corporate houses run a London median of £379 per desk against £712 for everyone else. The other half is genuine location premium: WeWork charges 51–67% more at its two Soho buildings than at its own 26 other London doors.
Office space Soho: which postcodes count as Soho?
W1D and W1F. All eight Wezoo private-office buildings in Soho sit in one of the two, inside the box formed by Oxford Street, Regent Street, Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road. W1B is not Soho — that district runs north to Portland Place, and treating it as Soho will put a Marylebone building in your shortlist.
Office space Soho: what is the cheapest private office in the district?
Runway East at 66 Old Compton Street, at £660–£690 per desk per month. Its 19-desk floor at £12,540 is the best per-head rate inside Soho. If you will accept a six-to-eight-minute walk, Regus Piccadilly is £449 per desk and Spaces Covent Garden £509.
Office space Soho: can I get a small office for two or three people?
Yes, but the choice is thin. Medius House lists two-desk suites from £1,890 a month and Huckletree Soho lists three-desk suites at £2,500. Median suite size across the district is five desks, so small rooms move quickly — 78% of Soho suites are available immediately.
Office space Soho: how fast can I move in?
Most of the market is immediate. 31 of the 40 suites Wezoo lists in Soho are available now, ahead of the 66% Greater London average. The remaining nine free up between August and October 2026.
