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📄 ANNUAL REPORT 2024

Bangkok Office Market Report 2024 — Vacancy, Rent & Net Absorption

Executive summary

Vacant space across the Bangkok office market rose by 261,095 sqm in 2024, comparing the same 277 buildings against 2023 — tenants gave back more space than they took. Occupancy fell from 78.5% to 75.3%.

Weighted asking rent for the same buildings was flat from ฿881 to ฿881/sqm/month. 5 new buildings completed during the year, adding 203,087 sqm.

Analysis by Jirayus Boonyarattapan · survey period: December 2024
261,095
Vacant space rose (sqm)
75.3%
Occupancy (from 78.5%)
฿881
Weighted rent ฿/sqm
2,046,755
Vacant space (sqm)

How much vacant space changed, and what it means

Vacant, Dec 2023
1,760,898
Vacant, Dec 2024
2,021,993
=
Rose by
261,095
net absorption −261,095
📖 Reading this
This is the vacant space in the same 277 buildings at year end, against the year before. In 2024 vacant space rose by 261,095 sqm, meaning tenants gave back more space than they took; occupancy fell from 78.5% to 75.3%. The panel is held fixed because counting newly-opened buildings would show vacant space rising even if no tenant had moved out. The trade calls this difference net absorption, with the sign reversed: vacancy falling is positive, vacancy rising is negative.

Rent in 2024

Like-for-like (same buildings)
฿881 → ฿881
0% · 277 buildings
Whole survey (all surveyed buildings)
฿881 → ฿881
0% · 284 buildings

The two differ because the mix of surveyed buildings changes — when newer, pricier buildings enter the survey the overall average looks higher even if existing buildings did not raise rents. For trend reading, rely on the like-for-like figure.

New supply completed in 2024

5 buildings, 203,087 sqm of new leasable area.

By area (December 2024)

Bangkok office market by area, 2024
Area NLA Occupancy Vacant Weighted rent
Bangna 1,010,241 82.7% 174,296 ฿645
Sukhumvit 866,111 70.9% 251,608 ฿993
Sathorn 844,185 78.2% 183,676 ฿930
Rama 4 779,618 56.5% 339,035 ฿1,132
Chidlom 573,077 78.2% 125,095 ฿992
Rama 9 506,578 78.7% 107,946 ฿665
Ratchadapisek 433,609 81.7% 79,488 ฿632
Silom 430,988 77.4% 97,257 ฿983
Asok 407,120 83.4% 67,712 ฿660
Phloen Chit 361,539 65.7% 124,009 ฿1,115
Phaya Thai 355,769 70.8% 103,819 ฿967
New Petchburi 338,636 79.5% 69,350 ฿758
Phahonyothin 311,277 71.7% 87,987 ฿805
Surawong 235,618 86.9% 30,777 ฿495
Rama 3 230,565 68.5% 72,565 ฿805
Krung Thonburi 149,765 96.4% 5,354 ฿336
Ramkhamhaeng 136,338 66.1% 46,178 ฿522
Naradhiwat Rajanagarindra 128,856 63.7% 46,717 ฿607
Vibhavadi Rangsit 96,056 88.7% 10,880 ฿640
Chaeng Watthana 78,000 93.1% 5,404 ฿628
Srinagarindra 36,935 70.9% 10,733 ฿401
Ratchadamri 17,347 60.4% 6,870 ฿758

Method & scope

This report is computed from the December 2024 survey of the 284 office buildings OfficeBangkok tracks — not a census of every Bangkok building. All figures count only buildings surveyed that year, so a year with thinner coverage is not flattered by a full-stock denominator. The vacancy movement and the rent change use a like-for-like panel of 277 buildings present in both December 2023 and December 2024. Rents are asking rents, weighted by vacant-space size — not effective (post-incentive) rents. Figures in this report are frozen to that survey and do not move as newer data arrives; for current numbers, see the market pages.

Report period: December 2024 · Full methodology →

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