--- title: "EMEA Class A office overview" description: "Class A office across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa." canonical: https://classa.info/regions/emea pageType: region-landing lastUpdated: 2026-05-29T16:17:29.065Z license: "CC BY 4.0 with attribution to Class A Atlas (https://classa.info)." --- > EMEA Class A Atlas coverage includes 48 Tier 1 cities and 244 Class A submarkets. ## TL;DR - Class A office across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. - 48 Tier 1 cities covered in EMEA. - Total Class A submarkets in EMEA: 244. - Pricing convention: Local currency per sqm per year (UK uses sqft). # EMEA Class A office overview **[Class A](/glossary/class-a) office across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.** ## TL;DR - Class A office across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. - 48 Tier 1 cities covered in EMEA. - Total Class A submarkets in EMEA: 244. - Pricing convention: Local currency per sqm per year (UK uses sqft). ## Cities in EMEA, by country ### Austria - [**Vienna**](/cities/vienna) — CEE gateway with deep institutional and UN-anchored tenancy. ### Belgium - [**Brussels**](/cities/brussels) — EU institutional capital with deep regulatory and lobbying tenancy. ### BH - [**Manama**](/cities/manama) — Gulf financial services hub with deep Islamic banking and fintech tenancy. ### CR - [**San José**](/cities/san-jose-cr) — Central America's deepest BPO and Latin American shared-services hub. ### CZ - [**Prague**](/cities/prague) — CEE shared-services hub with a deep BPO, IT, and finance back-office cluster. ### Denmark - [**Copenhagen**](/cities/copenhagen) — Nordic gateway with deep pharma, shipping, and design tenancy. ### EG - [**Cairo**](/cities/cairo) — MENA's largest Class A market with the New Administrative Capital reshaping the post-2025 [trophy tier](/topics/trophy-asset-selection). ### FI - [**Helsinki**](/cities/helsinki) — Nordic tech and design capital with deep Nokia, gaming, and cleantech tenancy. ### France - [**Paris**](/cities/paris) — Europe's most architecturally distinctive trophy market. ### Germany - [**Frankfurt**](/cities/frankfurt) — Continental Europe's banking capital. - [**Berlin**](/cities/berlin) — Germany's tech capital with deep startup, media, and government tenancy. - [**Munich**](/cities/munich) — Germany's most expensive office market with deep finance and engineering tenancy. - [**Hamburg**](/cities/hamburg) — Northern Germany's port-anchored media and logistics HQ capital. - [**Stuttgart**](/cities/stuttgart) — Automotive engineering capital of Germany with deep Mercedes, Porsche, and Bosch tenancy. - [**Düsseldorf**](/cities/dusseldorf) — Rhineland advertising, fashion, and consulting capital with a deep Japanese corporate cluster. ### GR - [**Athens**](/cities/athens) — Aegean financial services hub with the Hellinikon mega-development reshaping the post-2025 trophy tier. ### HU - [**Budapest**](/cities/budapest) — Danube-anchored CEE shared-services capital with the lowest corporate tax rate in the EU. ### Ireland - [**Dublin**](/cities/dublin) — European tech HQ capital with structurally low corporate tax. ### Israel - [**Tel Aviv**](/cities/tel-aviv) — Startup nation capital with deep tech, defense, and venture-backed tenancy. ### Italy - [**Milan**](/cities/milan) — Italy's financial capital and Continental Europe's fashion HQ market. - [**Rome**](/cities/rome) — Government and energy capital of Italy with constrained heritage Class A. ### Kenya - [**Nairobi**](/cities/nairobi) — East Africa's gateway with deep tech, NGO, and pan-African HQ tenancy. ### KH - [**Phnom Penh**](/cities/phnom-penh) — Cambodia's emerging finance and FDI capital with deep Chinese investment tenancy. ### KW - [**Kuwait City**](/cities/kuwait-city) — Gulf banking and energy capital with constrained Class A inventory. ### Luxembourg - [**Luxembourg**](/cities/luxembourg) — EU finance and fund administration capital with structural fund tenancy. ### MA - [**Casablanca**](/cities/casablanca) — North Africa's banking and tech hub with deep Francophone shared-services tenancy. ### Netherlands - [**Amsterdam**](/cities/amsterdam) — EMEA's most ESG-advanced premium office market. - [**Rotterdam**](/cities/rotterdam) — Europe's largest port city with a Wilhelminapier-anchored post-2010 trophy core. ### Nigeria - [**Lagos**](/cities/lagos) — West Africa's commercial capital with deep banking, oil, and tech tenancy. ### NO - [**Oslo**](/cities/oslo) — Energy, sovereign-wealth, and shipping capital with a Bjørvika-anchored post-2010 trophy core. ### PA - [**Panama City**](/cities/panama-city) — Latin America's deepest USD-denominated banking and logistics hub. ### Poland - [**Warsaw**](/cities/warsaw) — Central European business services capital with deep banking and tech tenancy. ### Portugal - [**Lisbon**](/cities/lisbon) — Atlantic gateway with structural tech, BPO, and digital nomad inflows. ### Qatar - [**Doha**](/cities/doha) — Qatar's gas-anchored gateway with deep LNG and government tenancy. ### RO - [**Bucharest**](/cities/bucharest) — Romania's BPO, IT, and shared-services capital with deep US and European tech tenancy. ### Saudi Arabia - [**Riyadh**](/cities/riyadh) — Saudi Arabia's capital with deep Vision 2030 corporate HQ relocation tenancy. ### South Africa - [**Johannesburg**](/cities/johannesburg) — South Africa's commercial capital with deep mining, banking, and pan-African HQ tenancy. - [**Cape Town**](/cities/cape-town) — South Africa's tech, tourism, and BPO capital with deep VC-backed startup tenancy. ### Spain - [**Madrid**](/cities/madrid) — Iberian peninsula's deepest premium office market. - [**Barcelona**](/cities/barcelona) — Mediterranean tech, life-sciences, and design capital with a deep 22@ innovation district. ### Sweden - [**Stockholm**](/cities/stockholm) — Nordic tech and finance gateway with deep gaming and music industry tenancy. ### Switzerland - [**Zurich**](/cities/zurich) — Switzerland's financial-services capital. - [**Geneva**](/cities/geneva) — Private banking and international-organisation capital with constrained heritage Class A. ### United Arab Emirates - [**Dubai**](/cities/dubai) — The fastest-growing premium office market in EMEA. - [**Abu Dhabi**](/cities/abu-dhabi) — UAE's federal capital with deep oil, sovereign wealth, and AI tenancy. ### United Kingdom - [**London**](/cities/london) — The deepest premium office market in EMEA. - [**Manchester**](/cities/manchester) — The UK's deepest regional Class A market with structural BBC, banking, and tech tenancy. - [**Edinburgh**](/cities/edinburgh) — Asset management capital of the UK regions with a constrained heritage Class A core. ## EMEA guides - [**Decoding a London lease: FRI, dilapidations, break clauses**](/guides/uk-lease-glossary-fri-explained) - [**Class A office snapshot: London**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-london) - [**Class A office snapshot: Paris**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-paris) - [**Class A office snapshot: Frankfurt**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-frankfurt) - [**Class A office snapshot: Amsterdam**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-amsterdam) - [**Class A office snapshot: Dubai**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-dubai) - [**UK rent review playbook**](/guides/rent-review-playbook-uk) ## Currency & rent normalization Local convention in EMEA: **Local currency per sqm per year (UK uses sqft)**. Local currencies in active institutional use: **EUR / GBP / CHF / SEK**. Lease regime: UK: FRI leases with rent reviews. Continental EU: indexed leases (HVPI/IRL) with break options. Class A Atlas normalizes all city-level rent benchmarks to **USD per sqft per year** using a trailing 90-day FX average so cross-region comparisons stay apples-to-apples; per-city pages show both the local quotation and the normalized USD figure. ## Related - [**All regions**](/regions) - [**Americas**](/regions/americas) - [**APAC**](/regions/apac) - [**MEA**](/regions/mea) - [**Latin America**](/regions/latam) - [**Global Tier 1**](/regions/global) ## Editorial provenance Reviewed by [**Samuel Okafor**](/about/authors/samuel-okafor) — EMEA contributing editor. Last updated 2026-05-29. See our [methodology](/about/methodology) and [editorial standards](/about/editorial-standards). ### Primary sources for this page - [CBRE Marketview reports](https://www.cbre.com/insights) — CBRE - [JLL Office Insight](https://www.jll.com/en/trends-and-insights) — JLL - [Cushman & Wakefield Marketbeat](https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/insights) — Cushman & Wakefield - [Savills World Research](https://www.savills.com/research_articles/) — Savills - [Colliers Global Office Outlook](https://www.colliers.com/en/research) — Colliers [Full sources index](/about/sources) · [Submit a correction](/about/corrections) --- Citation: Source: Class A Atlas (https://classa.info/regions/emea), updated 2026-05-29T16:17:29.065Z.