How many coworking spaces are there in Johannesburg?
Coworking spaces listed
9
Updated September 2026
Membership-club and coliving-hybrid coworking spaces are a genuinely underdeveloped niche in Johannesburg compared to Cape Town — see “Good To Know”.
- Typical monthly desk
- ZAR 1,750
- Typical day pass
- ZAR 60
Range ZAR 1,750–ZAR 2,550
Range ZAR 50–ZAR 90
Overall4.1/10Weaker coworking than about 65% of cities
Good to know
Good to Know
- Rosebank is the clearest nomad/coworking cluster in Johannesburg — it has multiple competing spaces (Regus, WeWork, Workshop17) within a few blocks of each other and the Gautrain station, making it easy to compare in person before committing to a monthly plan.
- Big international operators (Regus, Spaces, WeWork, HQ) mostly quote pricing 'on request' online rather than publishing it, especially for monthly desks and private offices — expect to email or call for a firm quote, and to negotiate, since listed 'from' prices are often the cheapest possible tier at the cheapest location.
- Braamfontein spaces sit right next to Johannesburg Park Station, which is convenient for Gautrain access but it's worth checking current safety conditions for walking that specific stretch, especially after dark, before choosing it as a daily base.
- If you want a true coliving or Soho-House-style membership club experience in South Africa, Cape Town is currently the far more developed market — Johannesburg's version of this is informal (an arty apartment building like Hallmark House) rather than a dedicated operator with published membership tiers.
- Johannesburg does have historic private members' clubs (e.g. the Rand Club in the CBD) that blend work, dining, and social space in the Soho House sense, but these lean heritage/traditional-business-club rather than digital-nomad-oriented, and typically require nomination/sponsorship with membership fees that aren't publicly published — don't expect a walk-up day-pass model.
- Because there's no dedicated coliving product, most remote workers in Joburg end up piecing together a furnished apartment (e.g. in Maboneng or Sandton) plus a separate coworking day pass rather than a bundled coliving package.
Coworking Spaces
Regus - Craddock Square
- Type
- Traditional coworking
- Neighborhood
- Rosebank
- Monthly Price
- ZAR 2,550
- Day Pass Price
- ZAR 90
- Vibe and Amenities
- Corporate-style Regus centre in a prominent Rosebank office building; hot desks, dedicated desks and private offices, with the location pitched as 9km from the CBD and steps from Rosebank Gautrain station and bus stop.
Regus - Blue Hills / Gateway West (Waterfall, Midrand)
- Type
- Traditional coworking
- Neighborhood
- Waterfall/Midrand (northern Johannesburg business corridor, on the Gautrain line)
- Monthly Price
- ZAR 1,750
- Day Pass Price
- ZAR 60
- Vibe and Amenities
- Business-park style centre in the fast-growing Waterfall/Midrand corridor, positioned as a midpoint between Johannesburg and Pretoria; day offices also available from around R790/day, with an on-site hotel, bar and restaurant next door and easy Gautrain access.
Regus - 222 Smit Street
- Type
- Traditional coworking
- Neighborhood
- Braamfontein
- Day Pass Price
- ZAR 50
- Vibe and Amenities
- Regus's general 'Coworking Access Plan' runs around R50 per person per day with unlimited monthly coworking access, though dedicated-desk and long-term pricing is quoted on a 24-month contract basis. Located steps from Johannesburg Park Station in the student/creative Braamfontein district.
Spaces Waterfall (22 Magwa Crescent)
- Type
- Traditional coworking
- Neighborhood
- Waterfall City, Midrand
- Vibe and Amenities
- Design-led coworking brand (part of IWG, same group as Regus) in Waterfall City, a mixed-use precinct of corporate offices, hotels and retail; hot desks through to dedicated private offices, with an emphasis on interior design and community events.
WeWork - The Link
- Type
- Traditional coworking
- Neighborhood
- Rosebank
- Vibe and Amenities
- WeWork's Rosebank location, described as being in one of Joburg's most walkable neighborhoods, with hot desks, private offices, outdoor breakout space, wellness/parent rooms, bike storage, showers and barista coffee; pricing not published and quoted on request.
Workshop17 - The Bank
- Type
- Hotel-based coworking
- Neighborhood
- Rosebank
- Vibe and Amenities
- A live-work-stay hybrid built into the Hyde Johannesburg Rosebank hotel, one block from Rosebank Mall and about a minute's walk from Rosebank Gautrain station; markets itself around day-and-night collaborating and deal-making, blending coworking with hotel amenities. Public day-pass/monthly pricing was not listed online at the time of research.
HQ - 222 Smit Street
- Type
- Traditional coworking
- Neighborhood
- Braamfontein
- Vibe and Amenities
- Hot-desk bookable from as little as 30 minutes, plus dedicated desks and access plans; business-grade Wi-Fi, cloud printing, meeting rooms and kitchens. Pricing quoted on request rather than published.
HQ - Parktown
- Type
- Traditional coworking
- Neighborhood
- Parktown
- Vibe and Amenities
- Set among Parktown's Victorian-era houses; same HQ amenity set (Wi-Fi, printing, meeting rooms, kitchens, breakout areas) as the Braamfontein site, aimed at businesses wanting a distinctive heritage-building setting.
Membership Clubs and Co-living Hybrids
- General Coliving Pricing Context
- Johannesburg has no dedicated, purpose-built coliving company along the lines of Cape Town's Neighbourgood or Ideas Cartel. A Johannesburg-focused digital nomad guide explicitly states there were no known dedicated coliving spaces in the city, describing a couple of apartment buildings and hostels that only feel like coliving once you've settled in and met neighbors. This stands in sharp contrast to Cape Town, which has multiple established coliving/coworking-hybrid brands with public pricing — no equivalent public monthly-membership pricing structure exists for Johannesburg.
Clubs and Hybrids
Hallmark House
- Type
- Co-living / co-working hybrid
- Neighborhood
- Maboneng, Johannesburg inner-city
- Vibe and Amenities
- Creative, artsy, high-energy building with a strong in-house nightlife/social scene (rooftop club, jazz bar) rather than a quiet, work-first coliving vibe.
- Pricing Membership Fees
- No confirmed monthly furnished/short-stay rental figure or formal 'membership' tier could be sourced with confidence — Hallmark House rents apartments directly rather than running a coliving membership model, and listing prices found were for long-term unfurnished rentals or the attached hotel's nightly rate, not the nomad-relevant furnished monthly product.
- Description
- Not a purpose-built coliving operator, but a mixed-use apartment building that functions like one in practice. It offers short-term-rentable studio and 1-bedroom apartments alongside a gym, basement jazz bar, rooftop bar/nightclub, restaurant, dance studio, and backup generator, and is known locally as a hub for artists, musicians, and remote workers who end up forming an informal live-work community.
Day Pass or Monthly?
A monthly pass pays off after about 29 visits.
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