House Of Business

Fully furnished offices in Oslo and Budapest

House of Business lets offices and meeting rooms in the centre of Oslo and, on a smaller scale, in Budapest. Its Norwegian site speaks of eleven offices in the Oslo area, spread across places such as Rådhuset, Solli, Skøyen, Lysaker and Brynseng, and five in the Hungarian capital. The firm describes itself as an office hotel with personal service, aimed at businesses with between one and forty employees. Every office comes furnished and fitted with technical equipment, so the idea, as the firm puts it, is plug and play: bring a computer and start working.

Three ways to take space

The company lets space in three formats. Coworking puts several companies into one open shared area. A serviced office means renting a private room in a building where several offices are gathered. Meeting rooms are the third, set up to suit the event and sized for between two and forty participants, with a video projector, screen, whiteboard and internet access. A part-time office is also offered for businesses that need a place only a few days a month, and the renter decides the length of the lease, anywhere from a single day to several years. The firm says its lease terms are designed to keep the risk of renting low.

What is included

Tenants have access around the clock, every day of the year. Switchboard services, mail handling and secretarial help are taken care of by the staff, and there is print, copy and scanning equipment where a personal password keeps documents from unauthorised hands. Many of the buildings have a canteen serving breakfast, lunch or packed lunches with a different hot dish each day, plus coffee, hot chocolate, tea and drinking water. The firm also lists changing rooms with showers, private storage, lockable bicycle parking, bright modern offices with good ventilation and lighting, and offices near transport hubs and public transport, with some within reach of a gym. The firm says the buildings are centrally placed in the Oslo business district, so that clients and colleagues can reach them easily.

A community strategy

The company's strategy is called Home of Opportunities. It explains this as giving tenants access to things they would not find elsewhere, such as networks, events, knowledge and flexible solutions that help a business develop. It stresses the diversity of professionals in its office communities, and it mentions social evenings and seasonal parties as a way to extend contacts. Visitors to the site can ask an adviser to show them around.

One detail that differs

Older text on the site gave a meeting room capacity of up to 110 people, whereas the current pages say forty. The current figure is the one used here.

House Of Business rents fully furnished offices and meeting rooms in Oslo and in Budapest, Hungary. Its offices come with the necessary technical equipment, so a tenant only needs to bring a computer.

What House Of Business offers

• Private offices: fully furnished offices to rent, for short periods or for several years.
• Part-time offices: a part-time office for businesses that need space only some days each month.
• Coworking: shared workspace with several companies in one office.
• Meeting rooms: rooms for meetings of two to 40 participants, set up to suit each meeting.
• Print and copy services: printing, copying and scanning, with a unique password to keep prints private.

Who it works with

The offices suit businesses with 1 to 40 employees. Tenants can meet professionals from a range of disciplines within the office communities.

Key facts

• Based in: Oslo, with 11 offices, and Budapest, Hungary, with 5 offices.
• Meeting rooms: capacity for two to 40 participants.
• Access: 24 hours a day, every day of the year.