Croissant Office Price Index

Private office prices for four or five people, by city

Each quarter Croissant prices the private offices it can find a team, building by building, and looks for the patterns that change where it pays to look. These are the findings from the prices read on 2026-10-20. Every price is what the whole office costs a month, before taxes.

What we found

$405 a monthFor half the New York offices with another office of the same size within a five-minute walk, the cheapest one nearby costs at least this much less.How to pay less for a private office in New York →1 to 3 peopleThe only team sizes for which Brooklyn is clearly cheaper than Manhattan. Above that, the boroughs cost about the same.Brooklyn vs Manhattan for a private office →11 of 18Times two smaller offices in one New York building cost less than one office for a team of 10 to 15.Offices for 10 to 15 people in New York →€140 a monthIn 4 of 7 Barcelona buildings, a private office cost at most this much more than a shared desk for each person.Private office prices in Barcelona →€733 to €2,000What a four-person office costs in Lisbon, depending on the neighborhood.Small-team offices in Lisbon →

How we measure

The index prices whole private offices on a monthly term: offices on Croissant at their 12-month price and, in New York, the private offices LiquidSpace and CoworkingCafe list with a monthly price and a seat count, collected by Croissant. An office listed in two places counts once. Offices Croissant lists for operators such as Regus and Industrious are left out, because their monthly price is worked out from a day rate, and so are day offices, meeting rooms, call booths and open desks. Every comparison says how many offices it rests on, and where the numbers are too few to be sure, the page says so.

In Barcelona and Lisbon, where no platform lists private offices with a seat count, each office on Croissant is set against what its team would pay for shared desks nearby. To compare offices for your own team, start with private offices in your city, or read how the Croissant Workspace Index counts the coworking platforms themselves.

FAQs about private office prices

Why are prices for the whole office?

A team rents a whole office and pays for every seat in it, used or not, so the price of the office is the number on the bill.

How often is the index updated?

Every quarter. Each page shows the date its prices were read.