What a Serviced Office in Cardiff Actually Costs per Month: 2, 3 and 6-Person Breakdown

A serviced office in Cardiff for two people runs roughly £250 to £450 + VAT a month. A three-person suite sits at roughly £400 to £700 + VAT. Six to eight people lands at roughly £800 to £950 + VAT, and the bigger seven and eight-person suites run to roughly £1,400 to £1,600 + VAT. Those are the numbers most Cardiff searches are actually after, and they are the guide bands we quote from at Alexandra Gate Business Centre on Ffordd Pengam.

We run an independent, owner-managed centre in Pengam Green, east Cardiff, and have done since 2005. Our furnished serviced offices in Cardiff come fobbed, cleaned and connected, and the monthly licence fee covers most of what a conventional lease bills you for separately. Below we break the cost down by team size, show what sits inside the figure and what sits outside it, work out the cost per desk, and set it against the true all-in cost of a leased office once rates, service charge and utilities land.

How much is a serviced office in Cardiff per month?

Between roughly £250 and £1,800 + VAT a month, depending on how many desks you need. That is the honest range for a centre like ours. The spread is wide because a two-desk suite and a twelve-desk suite are not remotely the same product.

Here are our current guide bands. Every figure excludes VAT. Availability and pricing shift, so confirm what is actually free before you plan around a number.

Watch what happens to the per-desk figure. It falls as the team grows. A solo occupier in a two-person suite pays the most per head. Fill that same room and your cost per person drops by roughly half. Sitting between two sizes? Take the larger one and grow into it. The per-desk economics almost always favour it, which is exactly the thinking behind knowing when to size up your Cardiff office before you outgrow it.

Introductory offers are available too, subject to the terms taken and the length of agreement. Ask.

What is inside the monthly figure?

The licence fee covers the office and the running of the building. One invoice, one supplier, no separate contracts to chase. That is the point of a serviced office.

Included at Alexandra Gate:

• A fully furnished suite. Desks, chairs, storage. You bring laptops and a kettle if you want one.
• Business rates on the suite, building insurance and service charge, with no separate bills landing three months in.
• Heat, light and power.
• Daily cleaning of your office and the communal areas.
• 24/7 fob access and CCTV. Intruder alarms are available per office if you want them.
• Manned reception Monday to Friday, roughly 8:30am to 4:45pm. Incoming mail sorted daily, outgoing post franked.
• Free on-site parking for staff and visitors. No permit. No city-centre tariff. Electric car charging on site.
• Access to the cafe, breakout zones and collaboration areas.
• Flexible licence terms, monthly or longer.

The parking point is not a throwaway. A city-centre car park space in Cardiff quietly adds a meaningful sum per person per month once you multiply it across a team and a working year. At Pengam Green you park for nothing, right outside the door.

What sits outside the monthly figure?

Three things, and we would rather you knew now than found out on invoice two.

IT and telecoms

This sits on its own line, roughly £30 to £75 + VAT per month depending on the size of your office. We run fibre broadband from shared access up to dedicated 500 Mbps lines, and telephony provision is available. A two-person suite on shared fibre sits at the bottom of that band. A ten-person team on a dedicated line sits at the top. Ask for the line to be priced at the same time as the office so you compare like with like. This is one of the most common gaps in quotes across the city, and it is the first thing worth pinning down when you look at what changes a serviced office price in Cardiff.

Meeting and training room hire

You do not pay for meeting space you never use, which is exactly why it sits outside the licence fee. When you need it:

• Meeting room, around 300 sq ft, seats up to 8, TV and whiteboard, from around £60 + VAT per day.
• Training room, around 350 sq ft, seats up to 12, from around £60 + VAT per day.
• Boardroom, around 615 sq ft, seats up to 25, private floor with lift access, projector, whiteboards, air conditioning, storage, fridge and its own WC, plus around 475 sq ft of landing space, from around £100 to £200 + VAT per day.

A three-person consultancy that pitches twice a month is buying a small suite plus occasional meeting room hire in Cardiff rather than paying rent all year on a room that sits empty. Cheaper business.

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Meeting and training rooms sit on the ground floor of the centre. The boardroom has its own private floor with lift access, so a board meeting or an all-day interview panel never runs through your office.

• Seats up to 25
• Private floor, lift access
• Projector and whiteboards
• Air conditioning
• Own WC
• Free visitor parking

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VAT

Every figure on this page excludes VAT. If you are VAT-registered you reclaim it. If you are not, add 20% to everything above and budget from that.

Cost per desk: what a 2, 3 and 6-person office really works out at

Per desk, expect roughly £120 to £235 + VAT per month at Alexandra Gate. Here is how three common team sizes land.

2-person office cost in Cardiff

Roughly £250 to £450 + VAT a month for the suite, plus roughly £30 to £50 + VAT for the IT and telecoms line. Call it somewhere around £280 to £500 + VAT all in. That is £140 to £250 + VAT per person for a private, lockable, furnished office with free parking, daily cleaning and a staffed reception. The layouts we have for pairs are on our two-person office page.

3-person office cost in Cardiff

Roughly £400 to £700 + VAT for the suite, plus the comms line. Around £135 to £235 + VAT per desk. Three people is the size most Cardiff SMEs underbuy. They take a two-person room and are elbow to elbow within a year. Look at the three-person office before you commit to something tighter.

6-person office price in Cardiff

Roughly £800 to £950 + VAT a month for a six to eight-person suite, and the bigger 7 to 8 person rooms run to roughly £1,400 to £1,600 + VAT. At the lower end that is around £135 to £160 + VAT per desk, which is where serviced space starts to look very hard to beat. Our six-person office is the size that moves fastest here, and for good reason.

Above that, an 8 to 12 person suite sits at roughly £1,500 to £1,800 + VAT. Suites here run roughly 80 to 1,200 sq ft and take teams of 1 to 30. Not sure which band you belong in? Our note on outgrowing your office and when to upsize walks through it.

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Suites at Alexandra Gate by team size

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1 to 2 peopleTwo person suite £250 to £450 + VAT Private, lockable and furnished. Free parking, daily cleaning, 24/7 fob access. See the two person office → 3 peopleThree person suite £400 to £700 + VAT Room for a desk each plus storage, without moving again after the next hire. Take the three person office → 6 to 8 peopleSix person suite £800 to £950 + VAT The band where cost per desk drops hardest. Sales floors, trades HQs, back-office teams. Compare the six person office → 8 to 12 peopleLarge bright office £1,500 to £1,800 + VAT Natural light and a footprint that takes a whole department rather than one team. Explore the large bright office → Up to 30 peoplePremium suite Priced on application The biggest space in the building, for a regional office or a full Cardiff base. Step up to the premium suite →

Serviced office vs leased office: the true monthly cost compared

A leased office looks cheaper on the headline rent and almost never is once you add everything up. The rent is one line on a bill with eight lines.

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Two things kill leased offices for small Cardiff teams. The first is cash flow: furniture, fit-out, deposit, install fees and legal costs all hit before a single person sits down. The second is dilapidations, the bill at the end for putting the building back how you found it, which nobody budgets for and everybody remembers. We set the two models against each other in our comparison of a business centre versus a commercial landlord, and there is a fuller serviced office against leased office breakdown too.

A lease can still win. If you need eighteen months of certainty in one specific building, a heavy fit-out, and you have the capital to fund it, take the lease. For a team of two to twelve who want to be working by Monday, it rarely does.

Why Pengam Green costs less than the city centre

Location is the single biggest lever on price in Cardiff, and out here it works in your favour.

We are at 2 Alexandra Gate, Ffordd Pengam, Pengam Green, CF24 2SA, roughly two miles from the city centre, with the A48 Eastern Avenue on the doorstep. M4 Junction 30 at Cardiff Gate is a straight run north-east. Ocean Park and the Cardiff Bay link road sit just to the south. Newport Road Retail Park, Tesco Extra, fuel and cash points are a two-minute drive.

That geography does two things to your monthly bill. It takes the city-centre premium out of the rent, and it takes parking charges out entirely, a real recurring saving that most cost comparisons quietly ignore. Clients from Newport, Penarth, Barry, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Bridgend, Cwmbran and the Vale of Glamorgan drive in and park outside without circling a multi-storey. Teams from Splott, Tremorfa, Rumney, Roath, Cathays, Llanishen and St Mellons are minutes away.

Two miles out

The saving nobody puts in the comparison

Two miles buys you the parking and the premium

Want the Cardiff address without the desk? Our virtual office services give you a business address and mail handling at a fraction of an office cost, a sensible first step for a business not ready to commit to space.

• Free parking, no permit, no tariff
• Electric car charging on site
• A48 on the doorstep, M4 J30 north-east

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FAQs

All prices quoted are guide bands and exclude VAT. Current availability and pricing should be confirmed with the centre.