Some would argue that a “serviced office is a serviced office” and that this infers that they are pretty much of a muchness inside. Many corporate style suites will be similar in appearance because this is what the majority of tenants will demand. The reason serviced offices have been so successful with corporates as they know that they can move into one, wherever that may be from Atlanta to Zurich, and that they will know what to expect.
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easyOffice is expanding it’s network of serviced offices. easyoffice has enlisted the help of Devono to help increase it’s portfolio of centres from four to a target of over 30 by Autumn 2010. The majority of these new centres will be in London. easyoffice chief executive Mark Smith said: ‘The market is right for this. There are deals that hitherto would not have been offered to serviced offices. And there is still demand – this country is full of entrepreneurs and they will keep on coming.’
easyoffice, which started from one business centre in Kensington, now operates in Camden,
Mayfair, and
Glasgow. It is also believed to be wanting to open centres in Cheshire and
Nottingham. The company will be both buying properties and well as looking for lease or profit share agreements. Mark Smith revealed that to rent an office with easyoffice, tenants need not put down a deposit and could rent a desk from just £70 per week. The company will continue to provide
office space for entrepreneurs and start-up businesses.
Mark Smith said that people knew what to expect with the easybrand. He gave an insigt into his daily working life – ‘I have a weekly meeting with Stelios. The first question is who we have signed this week. It is always entrepreneurs, such as a language person, a property person, finance – we love that.’ Although the current plans are for the UK only, the company has not ruled out European expansion.
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of Easyoffice, is looking to open his first business centre in Liverpool. EasyOffice was started 18 months ago and is an extension of the easygroup brand, offering low cost and flexible office space for start up’s an entrepreneurs. Sir Stelios hit the headlines last year after a run in with Regus supremo Mark Dixon.
EasyOffice offer easy in, easy out terms for tenants who can pay as little as £99 per week and pay using a credit card. With no need for a legal lease agreement to be drawn up, the current easy locations have been hugely popular. The first easy centre in the prestigious Kensington area of London achieved 100% occupancy in the first two months of opening. There are also locations in
Camden and
Glasgow
CEO Mark Smith, formerly of Regus said: “When carrying out market research, we found that many people in the area could benefit from serviced, low-cost office space.†The company is believe to want offices that can take 170 desks.