47 office spaces to rent in Reading
Across 11 buildings from 6 operators, plus 2 coworking desks. Median private office £320 per desk per month, October 2026. Stations nearby: Reading and Reading West.
5 Person Private Office | 179 sqft
Thames Tower Station Road Reading, RG1
6 Person Private Office in Reading
Quadrant House Broad Street Mall Reading, RG1
81 Person Office Available | 3,451 Sq. Ft.
2.1, One Station Hill Garrard Street Reading, RG1
92 Person Managed Office | 7,208 Sq. Ft.
Level 3, 20 Valpy Street Reading, RG1
6 Person Private Office | 220 Sq Ft
020, 450 Brook Drive Reading, RG2
40 Person Office Available | 612 Sq. Ft.
2.3A, One Station Hill Garrard Street Reading, RG1
15 Person External Private Office | 527 Sq. Ft.
115, Level 1, 450 Brook Drive Reading, RG2
Office space in Reading
Rubberdesk lists 47 offices to rent in Reading. As of October 2026, the median private office costs £320 per desk per month against £517 across London, across 675 desks.
Reading is the Thames Valley's office market, and it is priced like a regional city while being twenty-five minutes from Paddington. That combination is the whole argument for it: a team that needs to reach central London regularly, but not daily, pays a little over half the London rate to sit here.
Reading office space cost summary
| Median private office, per desk per month | £320 |
| Offices and desks listed | 47 |
| Desk capacity across those listings | 675 |
From live Rubberdesk listings as at October 2026.
What a desk costs by office size
| Location | 1-4 Desks | 5-10 Desks | 11-15 Desks | 16-25 Desks | 26-50 Desks | 50+ Desks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | £309 | £306 | £296 | £374 | £349 | £378 |
Median rate per desk per month. Source Rubberdesk, October 2026.
How Reading rates have moved
Where the offices are
The market splits between the station and the business parks, and the two suit different businesses.
Around Reading station you get town-centre stock within a few minutes' walk of the platforms, which matters more here than in most towns: the station is the Elizabeth line's western terminus as well as a Great Western mainline stop, so a London commute is a single train. The Oracle and the streets off Friar Street put lunch and meetings on the doorstep.
Green Park, Thames Valley Park and Winnersh Triangle are the business park end, south and east of the centre. The buildings are newer, the floor plates are larger and parking is included rather than negotiated. They are a poor fit for a team arriving by train and a good one for a team driving in from across Berkshire and Hampshire.
Serviced offices in Reading
Everything listed here is a serviced office: one monthly licence covering rent, business rates, utilities, internet, furniture, cleaning and reception, so the per-desk figure above is close to all-in. Offices to let on a conventional lease are not listed, and nor are managed offices in Reading, where a floor is fitted to your brief on a longer term; tell us if that is what you need. The operators with space in Reading include Elementa, Citibase, Co-Space, Fora and Work.Life.
What to know before you look
Reading's flexible stock runs from £309 a desk for a 1-4 person office upwards, and the choice thins above about twenty desks. The tenant base is heavily technology and telecoms, a legacy of the corporate campuses along the M4, which shows up in the specification: a higher share of Reading buildings have proper cooling, resilient connectivity and parking than you would find in a comparable northern city.
One thing the listings will not tell you: there is almost no coworking space in Reading, and the reason is structural. The corporate campuses along the M4 run their own flexible space for their own people, so it never reaches the open market. If a hot desk is what you actually need rather than a room, say so and we will look off-platform.
Office space in Reading: your questions answered
What do Reading offices go for?
Forty-five per cent below London, at £320 per desk per month on live listings as at October 2026. The London median is £517, and Reading is twenty-five minutes from Paddington on the Elizabeth line, which is the arithmetic the whole Thames Valley office market rests on. Rates, service charge, utilities, internet, furniture, cleaning and reception are inside the figure, so a team of fifteen budgets fifteen times the per-desk number and nothing else. What the rate hides is how competitive the market is, which is covered below.
How good is Reading for getting to London?
As good as anywhere outside the capital. Reading is the western terminus of the Elizabeth line, which runs direct to Paddington, Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon, Liverpool Street and Canary Wharf without a change. Great Western services reach Paddington in about twenty-five minutes, and the station is a national interchange with direct trains to Bristol, the south coast, Birmingham and the north without going via London. Heathrow is about half an hour by road or the RailAir coach. For a business with staff spread across the Thames Valley and clients in the City, few places are better placed.
Why is Reading office space so competitive?
Because demand for it is unusually strong relative to the town's size. The advertising cost for "office space reading" is the highest of any term we track, above Mayfair's, which tells you how hard businesses compete for tenants here. The reason is the Thames Valley technology corridor: a concentration of software, telecoms and pharmaceutical companies along the M4 that has been established for decades and keeps demand for flexible space high. For a tenant that means viewing quickly when something suitable appears, because the good buildings do not sit empty.
Where in Reading should I look?
The town centre around the station and Friar Street holds most of the flexible stock and is the obvious choice if your team commutes by rail. Green Park, south of the town off the M4, is the business park end, with newer buildings, generous parking and its own railway station since 2023. Thames Valley Park to the east is similar in character and suits larger occupiers. Caversham across the river is quieter and smaller in scale. The trade is straightforward: the centre for transport, the parks for space and parking.
Is parking included in Reading?
Often, and it is one of the real advantages over London. There is no charging clean air zone in Reading, and the business parks at Green Park and Thames Valley Park were built around driving, so parking there is usually plentiful and frequently included in the licence. In the town centre it is scarcer and normally charged separately. If a meaningful part of your team drives in from Berkshire, Oxfordshire or Hampshire, this is worth pricing properly, because the difference between a park and a town centre building can be several hundred pounds a month per car.
What size teams does Reading suit?
Anything from a pair up to 92 people in one office. That upper figure is healthy for a town of this size and reflects the business park stock, where whole floors come free in a way they rarely do in a historic city centre. Most of the demand sits between five and thirty desks and is well supplied by ten operators across 47 listings. If you want the larger end, look at Green Park and Thames Valley Park first: the town centre buildings are subdivided more finely.
How soon can I take a Reading office?
Two weeks is normal for serviced space, which comes furnished and connected. A viewing, a licence and a deposit of one to two months is the sequence. With 675 desks across the town, the usual sizes turn over regularly. The caveat is the one above: this is a competitive market, so the specific building you want may not be free when you look, and holding out for it costs more time here than it would in a slacker market. Managed space fitted to your specification runs six to eight weeks.
