How much does office rent cost in Dhaka?

Office rent in Dhaka varies by area, building age, floor, finish, whether the space is furnished, and whether the quoted figure includes service charge. Any single taka-per-square-foot figure is out of date within a season and misleading across neighbourhoods.

What holds its value is the method. Work out your own number and you can test any quote you are given against it.

One: rent for the space. Two: service charge and building maintenance. Three: utilities — electricity, water, gas where applicable, and the cost of running backup power. Four: connectivity and equipment, meaning internet, routers, printers and anything you buy to make the space usable. Five: people and consumables — cleaning, security if not included, pantry supplies, and the share of someone's salary spent managing the office.

Add the one-off costs — deposit, fit-out, furniture, wiring, air conditioning — and divide them across the number of months you realistically expect to stay. That amortised figure belongs in the monthly total too.

Cost follows area, so the first lever is how much area you actually need. Count your real peak occupancy rather than your headcount, then add the shared space your team genuinely uses — a meeting room, a pantry, circulation.

Teams routinely take more space than they use because they size for a future headcount that arrives later than planned. Paying for empty desks for a year is a quiet, expensive habit.

A serviced or coworking arrangement bundles most of those five lines into one figure. To compare like with like, put your full conventional total on one side and the bundled monthly fee on the other — then add, on the conventional side, the weeks of your own time spent setting the office up.

Profficio quotes per requirement rather than publishing a rate card, because the honest answer depends on the plan, the team size and the term. Tell us the shape of your team and we will send the current figures.