辦公室出租： Chester

Office space for rent in Chester

Supply is parked, not scattered

Chester lists 73 office lots across just 8 buildings, and the addresses repeat themselves: several sit on Herons Way inside Chester Business Park, the rest at West Employment Park on Minerva Avenue, on Chester Road and at the motorway service area by junction 14 of the M56. Eight buildings holding 73 lots means a shortlist in Chester is built by picking a park and a commute first, then choosing a floor inside it.

Sizes: small suites with a long tail

Median lot size in Chester is 57 m², while listings run from 5 m² up to 520 m². Half the Chester market therefore sits under 60 m² — one or two rooms — and a requirement running towards the 520 m² ceiling is covered only by the top of that range, so an expanding team should check what a single Chester building can offer beyond its first unit before signing.

Where the money goes

Asking rates in Chester run from $345 to $746 per m² a year, with the median at $505. The top of the Chester range costs more than twice the bottom for the same square metre, and since all 8 buildings sit in the same ring of business parks, that gap is paid for in fit-out, parking and service inclusions rather than in address.

A practical read for Chester: at the $505 median, a 57 m² suite works out near $28,800 a year before extras, and 73 available lots leave enough choice to push on lease term and included services instead of on headline rent.