Office Space Price Index — October 2026
Median private-office pricing for New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston in October 2026, computed from live SquareFoot inventory, with month-over-month movement.
Houston is the best large-market office value in America right now. The median serviced office across the 400 Houston spaces we track runs $329 per person per month — half of New York’s $700 — with the middle of the market between $249 and $509. Here’s how to actually rent here in 2026.
What Houston office space costs
At the $329 median, a team of five pays about $1,650/month for a furnished private office with internet, meeting rooms, and a front desk included. A team of ten runs ~$3,300 — less than a two-person office in Midtown Manhattan. Conventional direct leases quote in dollars per square foot per year here; serviced offices quote per person per month, which is the number this guide uses because it’s the one you’ll actually pay.
Live listings in Houston right now
Value pick1201 Fannin Street$189/desk/moView this space →Typical8300 Cypress Creek Pkwy$329/desk/moView this space →PremiumEast End Houston 2339 Commerce Street$700/desk/moView this space →
Asking prices from operators, updated as inventory changes. See all Houston listings →
Pick your district by your workforce, not the skyline
Houston is a commuter metro without zoning — where your people live should decide where you sign.
Downtown. The corporate core, tunnel-connected in summer, best transit access. Towers like 1400 Smith Street — a name tenants ask us about directly — carry large blocks and full floors.
Galleria / Uptown. The second downtown: retail, hotels, and the widest serviced-office selection in the city. The default for firms with clients on the west side.
Energy Corridor. West along I-10 — the energy-industry cluster, with parking-rich campuses and pricing at the friendly end of the range.
Texas Medical Center. If your work touches the world’s largest medical complex, being adjacent beats being cheap.
Westchase / Sugar Land / The Woodlands. Suburban value plays — often the right answer when the whole team drives.
Houston-specific things to check before signing
Parking is part of the rent. Ask whether spaces are included, how many per 1,000 SF, and what unreserved vs reserved costs — it can swing the real price 10–15%.
Summer matters. Tunnel or skybridge access downtown, and covered parking everywhere, are quality-of-life items your team will notice in August.
Small spaces are plentiful. We track 88 Houston spaces under 1,500 SF — small teams have real options here, unlike coastal markets.
Browse every Houston space with live pricing — a SquareFoot specialist confirms exact numbers and tour times directly with operators, free for tenants.
What is actually on the Houston market right now
Houston has more listed office space than any market we cover outside New York: 479 active listings in October 2026. Roughly 270 of them are whole floors or ground-floor spaces on a direct lease, about 120 are serviced or flexible operator locations, and 41 are subleases, which in Houston start around 2,000 square feet and come furnished more often than not. Small teams are not an afterthought here: 88 of those listings are under 1,500 square feet, and some start at 100.
Among the 50 serviced offices with a published rate, 14 sit at or under $249 per person per month, 23 fall between $250 and $499, and 13 are $500 or more.
The option most Houston guides miss: small suites direct from the landlord
Houston is the home market of the small-suite landlords who lease 100 to 500 square foot private offices directly, with no operator in the middle. Boxer Property alone has 43 buildings in our Houston set, and whole-suite rents start around $323 a month at 11011 Richmond Avenue, $355 at 1100 NASA Parkway, $428 at the Ranchester Building on Harwin Drive and $546 at 1001 West Loop South, on flexible or multi-year direct leases. The trade-off against a serviced office is simple: you get your own suite in a real office building for the price of one or two coworking desks, and you bring your own furniture and internet. For a two- to five-person firm that plans to stay put, it is often the cheapest all-in number in the city. See Houston small suites and serviced offices side by side.
How long it takes, and what the terms look like
Serviced office: tour this week, sign a one-page agreement, move in within two weeks. Terms run from month-to-month to twelve months, and Houston operators discount the twelve-month commitment meaningfully, so take it only once you have been in the space a quarter. Direct lease or small suite: 30 to 60 days for a small suite that needs no work, 60 to 120 days for a conventional lease once you add a letter of intent, lease negotiation and build-out. Sublease: the fastest way into furnished space below market, with two to four weeks added for landlord consent and a term limited to what the original tenant has left.
One Houston-specific note for clinical tenants: proximity to the Texas Medical Center commands a premium, but medical-permitted space exists across the Galleria and Westchase submarkets at general-office prices. Our medical office space guide covers the zoning, plumbing and build-out checks that apply everywhere.
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