The right offices for rent in Sandton
Everybody who’s anybody in the financial world wants to find offices for rent in Sandton. It’s the financial hub of South Africa, let alone its host city of Johannesburg, and the JSE Securities Exchange has its offices there. In fact, Sandton’s CBD is said to be the wealthiest square mile in Africa.
But that doesn’t mean that office space in Sandton is exclusively for investment banks and financial consultants.
The upmarket suburb attracts a wide range of retailers, restaurants and coffee shops (among others) that cater for the local market as well as tourist trade. In addition, businesses who want to provide a service to the blue chip clients who have office space in Sandton – like public relations, advertising, marketing and design companies – feel compelled to move closer to them. It facilitates time savings around meetings and conferences, and fulfills the required location, location, location mantra.
Sandton is not only upmarket, it’s also trendy so it’s not unusual to venture into the nearby Nelson Mandela Square or Sandton City for a more interesting out-of-office informal meeting over coffee, breakfast or lunch. Really busy financiers or investors will meet clients or service providers over dinner – when the stock markets demand less of their attention. There are plenty of fabulous eateries to choose from so combining business with entertainment becomes an absolute pleasure.
If yours is the kind of business that interacts with clients or colleagues in other cities or parts of the world – and you prefer to do it in person – of course, the big plus of having offices for rent in Sandton is that it’s a short ride on the Gautrain rail network directly from inside the OR Tambo International Airport building. Commuters can also catch the Gautrain to Johannesburg Park Station and Pretoria Station if they need to conduct business further afield and want to avoid the congested highways. In peak times, the journey takes 12 minutes; off peak it takes 20 minutes.
If you’re an events organiser, the nearby Sandton Convention Centre is bound to be useful and there are several other high-quality conference facilities in the suburb too. Hotels and guest houses that offer cater for conferences often have spa facilities too, so that’s another market to access.
The bottom line is that if you want high energy, vibey surroundings to transact and conduct your business, Sandton is the place to be.