India’s flex space market is booming, driven by rising demand, office supply shortages, and hybrid work trends. Developers and brokers can leverage pre-leasing to secure prime locations and meet evolving client needs.

India’s flex space market is booming, with pre-leasing surging as office supply falls short in metro cities, driving demand for flexible, ready-to-move solutions.

Incuspaze is gearing up for a public listing with a $25M pre-IPO round and plans to invest ₹100 crore to expand across Delhi-NCR, Pune, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad, capitalizing on India’s booming demand for flex spaces.

Indian real estate IPOs have gained pace due to high demand in residential, commercial, and retail industries. Real estate IPOs generated ₹13,553 crore in 2024, a significant rise from the previous year, as firms use capital markets for growth.

Indian office property net absorption is rising due to global capability centres (GCCs) and flexible spaces. India's status as a business centre is strengthened by global and local firms' rapid development.

Amazon, Cognizant, IBM, Accenture, and McKinsey are renewing leases in India's office space market, which is booming. Bangalore led the list of cities where major firms renewed office space, with 1.6 million square feet renewed between January and July 2024.

Flexible workspace provider Smartworks has expanded internationally by leasing 35,000 square feet of office space in Singapore. Smartworks is one of the first Indian flexible workspace companies to operate abroad.

A senior official at Bhive Workspaces, a top provider of managed office spaces, has announced plans for an IPO valued over ₹800 crore in the coming year. Before the IPO, Bhive wants to diversify its portfolio by lowering its 95% reliance on Bengaluru.

WeWork India has extended its five-floor, 1.4 lakh-square-foot lease at Goregaon East's Nesco IT Park. It would cost about ₹152 crore over five years for this strategic move.

Awfis, India’s largest flexible workspace solutions provider, is set to expand into new and existing markets, with a focus on strategic investments in smaller cities.

Google leased 649,000 sq ft of office space in Alembic City in Whitefield, Bengaluru. Sources report a monthly fee of ₹62 per sq ft with a three-year lock-in term. Google has been proactively purchasing conventional and flexible office premises in key Indian cities to expand its footprint.

Bengaluru office leasing is changing. Multinational firms' tech and shared service divisions, Global Capability Centres (GCCs), are gaining ground in India's commercial real estate market. In 2023, GCCs leased the most space since the start of the decade, according to Colliers.

The premier managed workspace provider Table Space recently completed a major leasing deal with real estate developer Runwal. The agreement leases about 1.31 lakh sq ft of office space in Runwal's commercial skyscraper in crowded Andheri, Mumbai.

Commercial purchases in Bengaluru fell 14.3% to 12.5 million square feet in 2023. Knight Frank India ascribed this decline to US inflation and a slowing technology industry, which drives Bengaluru's office space demand.