Top Locations/Areas for Office Space in Bangkok

in #real7 years ago

When it comes to office space, Bangkok boasts of a wide range of locations to choose from with its vast collection of offices for rent. The quality of these offices for rent depends on their grade of office building and facilities, accessibility to public transportation, and their location within Bangkok. Bangkok office areas are mostly concentrated within the Central Business District (CBD). They cover the following roads:

Sukhumvit
Sathon
Silom
Wireless
Rama IV

You can also find office properties for sale or rent throughout other parts of the city and locations such as Ratchadapisek. Terra, the first real estate firm established in Bangkok, offers an extensive listing for various kinds of office properties within Bangkok, including the areas mentioned above to midtown and suburban locations such as:

Bangna
Chaengwattana
Viphavadi-Rangsit
Ratchadapisek

In terms of proximity to mass transit systems, it would be ideal for your office space rental or purchase to be near these two: the MRT Subway and the BTS Sky Train. These mass transit systems serve as the primary and the most convenient means of transportation within Bangkok's midtown and central locations.

A Breakdown of Bangkok Office Areas and Locations
Geographically speaking, Bangkok office locations can be classified into the following regions.

Bangkok CBD: The Central Business District of Bangkok consists of Sukhumvit (from Sukhumvit Soi 1 to 41 and the Asoke area), Silom, and Wireless Roads. The mass transit infrastructure of both the MRT Subway and BTS Sky Train allows them to spread across different key nodes of urban development with a mix of residential, retail, and office structures.

Core CBD: The Core CBD, on the other hand, passes through Rama IV and Ploenchit Roads, so it includes areas like Ratchadamri, Wireless, Sathon and Silom Roads. This is the area where majority of Bangkok's top-class office buildings are located, hence, many multinational company headquarters and foreign embassies are found here, and both mass transit systems in Bangkok serve the area.

Outer CBD: It primarily covers Bangkok residential areas along the route of the BTS Sky Train (Sukhumvit Line). To be more specific, it goes from the early Sukhumvit Area and Asoke all the way to Sukhumvit Soi 41.

Non-CBD: Bangkok also offers office locations from its suburban and midtown areas, or the Non-CBD locations. These consist of Ratchada North, inner Northern corridor, outer Northern corridor, late Sukhumvit and Bangna-Trad Roads, East Bangkok, and South Bangkok. Companies who require accessibility to downtown, airport, and industrial locations tend to buy office space within this particular region. Office locations within the Non-CBD area tends to be concentrated along mass transit routes for obvious reasons.

Bangkok Office Classification

Grade A, or the absolute best category of offices, should include the following characteristics in order to be officially graded by CBRE as such.

The regularly shaped floor plate should be divisible and lack structural hindrances.
There should be a centralized air-conditioning system with air volume that can be controlled and adjusted instead of a water-cooled system with air volume that's automatically regulated at one setting.
The computer rooms of the tenants should also have a supply of air-conditioning for the whole day (24 hours).
The elevator should have quick accessibility and short waiting periods of operations. They should also be available in different floor zones. A service lift with its own separate lobby should also be present.
Floor lobbies, the main entrance, and other common areas should feature complex designs meant to impress and charm people, these include having beautiful decorations and the highest quality fittings.
It must be noted that 2.8 meters is the recommended height for ceilings within offices.
A professional building management team or staff should be present in every building.
The entry and exit routes of all parking lots should be efficiently and smoothly designed, such that it doesn't cause needless traffic.

Most buildings should have destination control elevators and controlled access turnstiles.
Some buildings (especially the newly built ones), should be ‘Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design’ certified (LEED certified).

Bangkok Office Types
Here are the core Bangkok office types you can avail of:

Single Ownership: Single ownership office developments include high-rises and purpose-built properties owned and operated by one office landlord. The companies and individuals who buy units and office space from the landlord are essentially the landlord’s tenants. Single ownership, or proprietorship, is the most common type of office development within Bangkok.
Multiple Ownership: Also known in Thailand as office condominiums (and elsewhere as strata title ownership), there is a limited amount of office developments in Bangkok that allow for multiple ownership of a given building or property. All units in this setup have the premises sold to individual owners rather than being rented out by landlords.
The main difference between single ownership and multiple ownership office space setups is that the latter has a different method of property management. The management company for multiple ownership offices is supervised by a co-owner’s committee, which manages the common areas.

Like in the case of condos for personal use, these office space condos have shared responsibility for areas outside of the units bought by the multiple owners; on the other hand, the maintenance of individual office space is the sole responsibility of the owners who bought them.

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