[leonroy]

The post seems slightly melodramatic and certainly doesn't mirror my experience finding an office for our company in the same area.

I'll agree that trying to find an office in London online is pretty futile - the best thing to do is leave the desk and take a walk.

Allocate an afternoon or two to pound pavement and start calling all the letting agencies with signs on the outside of buildings.

In one afternoon I managed to get two viewings sorted for the same day and several for the following days. Most of the agents would email us a daily summary of new properties they'd get in which met our requirements (1500sq ft, Old Street area etc.)

We had our new office sorted within two to three weeks. 6 month rolling lease.

Only fly in the ointment is that I'm still getting emails!

[atoosh]

Hi Leonroy

I'm Tushar, co-founder of Spacious ([e-mail])

I'm glad that you found the process easy once you called up the relevant agents.

The problem we are trying to fix is finding the space online. A lot of people don't want to commit the time to pounding the pavements and physically calling numbers. They would rather be able to browse space online, see all the relevant information and be able to make an informed decision about what they would like to view. In an age where we can browse most things from the comfort of our home, why should commercial property be different? This is especially the case for those who don't live near the area they would like to move into.

Again, everyone's different and I do very much appreciate the feedback!

I agree there are some agents out there who are excellent, and we maintain a very good relationship with them over here in London.

[leonroy]

Hi Tushar, you raise a fair point and you're right spaciousapp does solve a problem that could do with being a little easier for us couch surfers :)

Site looks pretty good. Like the app, and I think once our lease is up (sometime this year) we might just be using it!