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October 10, 2026 | by Michael Monday
There are three ways into an office in Dublin, and they take anywhere from a week to half a year. A flexible office is a fitted room on a short licence with one monthly fee. A managed office is a whole floor an operator fits out for you on a one-to-three-year agreement. A conventional lease is the long route: your own fit-out, your own contract, and a term measured in years. Which one fits depends on headcount, how long you are committing for and whether you have an entity in the country yet. This guide covers who the players are, who pays, and what each route involves. Dublin is the European base for much of US tech, and its flexible market grew up serving the companies that arrive before they have an Irish headcount. Iconic Offices and Glandore are the Dublin-born serviced operators; Dogpatch Labs and Huckletree hold the startup end; the Docklands take the large tech leases.
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Operators own or run the flexible buildings and sell desks and offices direct: Iconic Offices, Huckletree, Glandore, IWG (Regus, Spaces), WeWork, Dogpatch Labs, Workhub, Clockwise, Pembroke Hall. Flex brokers and marketplaces list several operators in one place: Instant Offices, Coworker, and SquareFoot. Leasing agents and tenant representatives handle conventional space: JLL, CBRE, Savills, Knight Frank, Cushman & Wakefield, Lisney. Operators in Dublin mostly quote on enquiry; SquareFoot shows published rates where they exist and asks the operator for the rest.
| Route | What happens |
|---|---|
| Flexible office | One to two weeks. A licence agreement, a fitted office, an immediate start. |
| Managed office | Four to twelve weeks for a self-contained floor fitted and run by the operator on a one-to-three-year agreement. |
| Conventional lease | Three to six months: heads of terms, a lease on Irish standard terms, your own fit-out, and a term of five to ten years with a break. |
SquareFoot is a marketplace, not a broker in Dublin. It is collecting the operators’ published centres and prices in one place, lets you shortlist and ask for a tour, and hands the request to the operator or a local partner who confirms availability and the exact price. The tenant pays nothing; the operator pays the introducer when a contract is signed. Flexible space is quoted per desk per month; conventional leases are quoted per square foot per year. Both are before VAT at 23%.
SquareFoot is adding Dublin operators now; live listings for Dublin will appear on the markets page as they are collected. Guide written by SquareFoot; last reviewed October 2026.
Flexible office: One to two weeks. Managed office: Four to twelve weeks for a self-contained floor fitted and run by the operator on a one-to-three-year agreement. Conventional lease: Three to six months: heads of terms, a lease on Irish standard terms, your own fit-out, and a term of five to ten years with a break.
Flexible space: the operator pays the introducer when a tenant signs; the tenant pays nothing and the rate is the same as going direct.
Not for flexible space, which a foreign company can take on a licence. A lease normally needs an Irish entity; one can be registered in days, but it needs an EEA-resident director or a bond and a registered office in Ireland.
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