Expanding Abroad to a New Market? One Office Search Partner, Every Market
20 July 2026 · Craig Maguire, MR Commercial Real Estate
You spent years learning the Dublin office market. Which buildings suit a team of ten and which suit a team of fifty. Which landlords are flexible and which are not. What a fair deal looks like. Then the business grows, and the next office is not in Dublin at all. It is in London, or Amsterdam, or New York. And all of that hard-won knowledge is worth nothing.
This is the position more Irish companies find themselves in every year. Expansion abroad used to be something only the largest firms did. Now it is a normal step for scaling companies of every size. Closer to clients, closer to talent, closer to the next market. The ambition is right. The problem is what happens when the office search starts.
Because in a new city, you are back to square one. You do not know the districts, so you cannot tell a great address from a merely expensive one. You do not know the lease norms, so you cannot tell a fair term from a poor one. And you do not know the people. The brokers who come recommended, the agents on the listings, the leasing managers who show you around: almost all of them are paid by the landlord. In your home market you might get away with that. In a market you do not know, it is how expensive mistakes get signed.
Here is the alternative. Keep the search partner, change the city.
MR Commercial runs tenant-side office searches for Irish companies in more than 110 countries and 2,500 cities through our global workspace network. The process is exactly the one we run in Dublin. You give us the brief: the city, the headcount, the budget, how you want to work. We search the full market, serviced, managed, leased and off-market. We shortlist the best options, arrange the tours, and negotiate the terms with someone on your side of the table from start to finish.
What changes for you is simple. Instead of starting from scratch in every new market, you have one partner and one point of contact in Dublin, no matter where the pin drops on the map. You compare real options on like-for-like terms. You see what local companies actually pay, not what visitors are quoted. And you sign a deal that was negotiated for you, not for the landlord.
Your next office does not have to be in Ireland for us to find it. Opening abroad this year or next? Tell us the city and the headcount, and we will handle the rest. Get in touch at craig@mrcommercial.ie or +353 1 963 6199, or visit www.mrcommercial.ie.