41 lease found in Sydney CBD
Across 10 buildings. Median private office $858 per desk per month, October 2026. Stations nearby: Bridge Street Light Rail, Wynyard and Wynyard Light Rail.
Newly Fitted Suite with 18 Sit-to-Stand Workstations, Meeting Room, Boardroom & Kitchen
8.01, 264 George Street Wynyard
Office space in the Sydney CBD
Rubberdesk lists 41 flexible offices in the Sydney CBD, 54 of them coworking floors, across 961 desks. As of October 2026, the median private office costs $858 per desk per month, the highest rate of any area in Australia and about a quarter above the $750 New South Wales median. What you get for it is the deepest choice in the country: on any week there are several genuine options at most team sizes within a few blocks of each other, which is what makes the rate negotiable.
Sydney CBD office space cost summary
| Median private office, per desk per month | $858 |
| Median coworking desk, per month | $499 |
| Offices and desks listed | 41 |
| Desk capacity across those listings | 961 |
From live Rubberdesk listings as at October 2026.
What a CBD desk costs against the fringe
The question people ask about the CBD is what the fringe saves. One train stop or a fifteen minute walk moves the rate by a third or more, and the table shows where.
| Location | 1-4 Desks | 5-10 Desks | 11-15 Desks | 16-25 Desks | 26-50 Desks | 50+ Desks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney CBD | $893 | $844 | $925 | $718 | $791 | $995 |
| Chippendale | $940 | $876 | $704 | - | $590 | $480 |
| Surry Hills | $913 | $979 | - | - | $825 | - |
| North Sydney | $616 | $660 | $638 | $784 | $700 | - |
| Pyrmont | $500 | $500 | $500 | $500 | $413 | $300 |
Median rate per desk per month. Source Rubberdesk, October 2026.
How Sydney CBD rates have moved
The CBD by precinct
The CBD is a long, thin market and the precincts behave differently.
- The financial core, Martin Place, George Street between Wynyard and Martin Place, and the Circular Quay towers, holds the premium serviced floors and most of the managed offices. It is where the top of the rate lives and where client-facing firms want to be.
- Barangaroo, the newest towers on the western harbour edge, prices with the core and has the largest floors and the newest fit-outs; the Metro station makes it the easiest part of the CBD to reach from the north and the Hills.
- Midtown, around Town Hall and the Pitt Street Mall, is the middle of the market: the older towers and the largest coworking floors, a few dollars a desk under the core.
- Haymarket and the southern CBD, between Central and World Square, carry the cheapest desks inside the postcode and the walk-in access to Surry Hills and Chippendale.
The fringe alternatives with the same postcode-adjacent commute: North Sydney at $657, Surry Hills at $913 and Pyrmont at $500.
Getting to the Sydney CBD
Every Sydney Trains line reaches the CBD, and the station you choose is the precinct you choose: Wynyard and Martin Place for the core, Barangaroo and Gadigal on the Metro for the western edge and Midtown, Town Hall for the middle, Central for the south. The light rail runs down George Street from Central to Circular Quay, and the ferries land at Circular Quay and Barangaroo. Almost no CBD building offers parking to tenants and public parking is the most expensive in the country, so plan around the trains.
Coworking and hot desks in the Sydney CBD
A dedicated coworking desk in the CBD has a median rate of $499 a month, about half the private office figure, with the same reception, kitchens and meeting rooms as the private offices on the floor. The CBD has the largest coworking floors in the country, mostly in Midtown and around Wynyard. Shared office space and coworking desks are listed on the Sydney coworking page.
Serviced and managed offices in the Sydney CBD
Almost everything listed in the CBD is serviced or managed space. A serviced office is a fitted room inside an operator's building, let per desk on a monthly agreement with reception, meeting rooms and kitchens shared; across New South Wales 93% are air conditioned, 92% furnished, 88% offer 24 hour access and 77% include meeting rooms. A managed office is a whole floor or self-contained suite fitted to your brief on a two or three year term and priced per floor, and the CBD holds most of the managed floors in Australia, in the core and at Barangaroo. The operators with the most listings in the CBD on Rubberdesk are The Executive Centre, Corporate Cubes, WeWork, Hub Australia and JustCo Global.
Guides and comparisons
- Sydney office space price guide, the full breakdown behind the figures above
- The top five office locations outside the Sydney CBD, for the fringe question
- Sydney's top coworking and serviced offices
- Office space in Sydney, the whole city, suburb by suburb
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