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Find corporate offices for lease or purchase in Iraq
Tell us the requirement — city, district, size, budget, lease or purchase — and we search the market, verify what we find and put a shortlist in front of you. Nothing on this page is a property we have not checked.
What you receive
- A written brief confirming the requirement as we understood it
- A market note on the segment you are searching in
- A shortlist with location, size, condition, asking terms and photographs
- Verification of availability and of the right to offer, for every option shown
- Viewing arrangements, in person or by video
- A comparison sheet setting the options against your criteria
- A clear handover to Salt & Associates for title, approvals and contracts
- Fit-out, furnishing, connection and facilities management afterwards, if you want it
Commercial property in Iraq is not listed the way it is elsewhere. There is no single reliable portal, asking prices move, and the building advertised as available is often already taken or was never the owner's to offer. Foreign companies, investors, embassies and international organisations lose months to that.
So we do it the other way round. You describe what you need. We run the search across Baghdad and the governorates, speak to owners and agents directly, confirm that what we are being shown actually exists and is actually available, and come back with a written shortlist you can act on.
What we search for
- Corporate offices for lease — whole floors, part floors and single suites
- Corporate offices for sale, where the building or unit is genuinely available to buy
- Headquarters buildings and standalone commercial buildings
- Serviced and furnished offices, ready to occupy
- Business centres and shared professional floors
- Temporary project offices, for a mobilisation window rather than a lease term
- Branch premises and project offices for a fixed scope or a fixed window
- Commercial property held as an investment rather than for occupation
- Warehousing, yards and mixed commercial-industrial premises, where the requirement runs beyond an office
Lease or buy
The two routes look similar and behave completely differently. Pick the one you are on and the page tells you what actually matters for it.
Leasing an office in Iraq
Faster, cheaper to reverse, and the right answer for most companies in their first years. The negotiation is about term, escalation, service charge and what the landlord fixes.
- Term, break rights and renewal — what happens in year three matters more than the headline rent
- Rent-free or fit-out contribution, and what the landlord actually delivers
- Service charge: what it covers, what it excludes, and who pays for generator fuel
- Who repairs what, and the condition you must hand back in
- Payment terms — how many months in advance, and in which currency
- Whether the party signing has the right to lease it to you
Buying an office or building in Iraq
A longer, heavier transaction with a legal core. The commercial search is the easy half; title, registration and permitted use decide whether it completes.
- Title and ownership — who holds it, on what basis, and whether it is registered
- What a foreign entity may own, directly or through an Iraqi company
- Zoning and permitted use for what you intend to do there
- Any governmental approval the transaction needs
- Tax treatment of the purchase and of holding the asset
- Condition, structure and what the building will cost to run
Title verification, registration, approvals, tax and the transaction documents are legal work and go to Salt & Associates under a separate engagement.
Where we search
Baghdad first, because that is where most corporate requirements land and where we are. Karrada, Jadriya, Mansour, Harthiya, Arasat and the Airport Road corridor each behave differently on price, access and security, and a requirement that suits one rarely suits another.
Beyond Baghdad we search Basra for oil, gas and logistics operations, Najaf for pilgrimage-linked and hospitality business, and Kirkuk and Mosul for northern and industrial requirements.
- Baghdad — Karrada, Jadriya, Mansour, Harthiya, Arasat, Airport Road and the central business districts
- Basra — city centre and the corridors serving the ports and the fields
- Najaf, Kirkuk and Mosul
- Elsewhere in Iraq where a project requires it
Verified options, not advertisements
Two different things can reach you from this page, and we keep them apart deliberately.
A verified option is a property we have inspected or had inspected, whose availability we have confirmed with the party entitled to offer it, and whose asking terms we have in writing. A property search request is what you send us when nothing verified matches — we then go and look.
We do not publish properties we have not verified, we do not publish prices we have not been given in writing, and we do not describe a building as available on the strength of a forwarded message.
[SALT TO CONFIRM BEFORE PUBLICATION: whether Salt wants a published listings section on this page, and if so who maintains it and how often availability is re-confirmed. Until Salt confirms, this page runs on requirements rather than listings.]
How a property search runs
- You send the requirement — transaction type, city, district, size, capacity, budget, term and intended use
- We come back within two working days with what we already know about that market segment
- We run the search: owners, agents, building managers and our own record of who holds what
- We verify availability and the right to offer before anything reaches your shortlist
- You receive a written shortlist — location, size, condition, asking terms, access, parking, power, connectivity and security, with photographs
- We arrange viewings, in person or by video walkthrough if you are outside Iraq
- We support the negotiation on commercial terms and hand the legal work to Salt & Associates
- On completion we can fit out, furnish, connect and run the space — that is a separate service, and the same desk
What we check on every property
- Who is actually entitled to lease or sell it, and on what basis
- Whether the space is genuinely available, and from when
- Usable area against stated area, and how the landlord measures it
- Condition, fit-out standard and what the incoming tenant would have to spend
- Power: grid hours, generator provision, capacity and who pays for fuel
- Connectivity: which providers reach the building and at what speed
- Parking, vehicle access, and whether an armoured vehicle can reach the entrance
- Security arrangements at the building, and what a tenant can add
- Accessibility, lifts and floor loading where it matters
- Service charges, management, maintenance responsibility and what is excluded
- Neighbouring occupiers, because who else is in the building is part of the risk
What we need from you to start
A search is only as good as the brief. Six answers are enough to begin; the rest we work out together.
- Lease or purchase, and whether you are genuinely open to either
- City and district, or the areas you would accept
- Floor area, or how many people have to sit in it
- Budget and the currency it is in, and whether that is monthly, annual or a purchase price
- What the space is for — office, headquarters, project base, investment
- When you need to be in it, and how firm that date is
- Anything non-negotiable: parking, generator capacity, armoured vehicle access, meeting rooms, accessibility
What determines the fee
We quote in writing before the search starts, and we do not publish prices here because a published price would be a guess at your requirement.
- Whether it is a lease search or a purchase search — purchases take longer and carry more verification
- How wide the geography is: one district in Baghdad, or Baghdad and Basra
- How specific the requirement is — a narrow brief takes longer to satisfy than a flexible one
- How many options you want shortlisted and viewed
- Whether you need us at the viewings and in the negotiation, or only the shortlist
- Whether fit-out, furnishing and facilities management follow the search
- Any commission arrangement in the market, which is disclosed to you either way
Virtual offices are a service, not a property transaction — an address, a telephone number and reception cover, with nothing leased or bought. If that is what you actually need, it is considerably cheaper than a search.
What has to be verified before you commit
Everything on a shortlist is commercial information gathered in good faith. It is a starting point for a transaction, not a substitute for legal due diligence.
Availability, ownership, title, registration, zoning, permitted use, governmental approvals, taxes and transaction terms all remain subject to verification and legal due diligence before any commitment is made.
- Title and ownership verification
- Registration status at the relevant land registry
- Zoning and permitted use for the intended activity
- Any governmental approval a foreign entity needs to lease or acquire property
- Tax treatment of the transaction and of the holding
- Lease drafting, sale and purchase agreements, and completion
If you are a foreign company, embassy or international organisation
Property rules for foreign entities in Iraq are not the same as for Iraqi companies, and they differ again for diplomatic missions. What a foreign company may lease, what it may own, what it may own through a local entity and what approvals apply are legal questions with real consequences.
We will tell you plainly when a requirement raises one of those questions, and route it to Salt & Associates before you spend money on it. What we will not do is guess at the answer to keep a search moving.
Who it is suitable for
- Foreign companies opening or expanding an office in Iraq
- Investors looking at commercial property as an asset
- Embassies and international organisations with premises and security requirements
- Contractors needing a project office for a fixed window
- Iraqi businesses relocating, consolidating or buying their own premises
- Organisations testing the market who want an address before they want a lease
Where this touches legal work. Title verification, registration, zoning and permitted use, governmental approvals, tax positions, lease drafting and sale and purchase agreements are legal work. They sit with Salt & Associates under a separate engagement. Salt Corporate Services runs the search, the verification of availability and condition, the commercial comparison and the coordination.
Common questions
Do you publish a list of available offices?
Only properties we have verified — inspected or had inspected, availability confirmed with the party entitled to offer them, and asking terms in writing. We do not republish forwarded listings. If nothing verified matches your requirement, send the requirement and we will search.
Can a foreign company buy an office in Iraq?
That is a legal question with a real answer that depends on the entity, the property and the intended use, and it is not one a property search should answer. Tell us the plan and we will route the question to Salt & Associates before you commit to anything.
Do you charge the buyer or the landlord?
Salt fees are agreed with you in writing before the search starts, and any commission arrangement in the market is disclosed to you. There are no undisclosed commissions, rebates or mark-ups. Prices are not published on this site because they depend on the requirement.
How long does a search take in Baghdad?
It depends on how specific the requirement is and how tight the district. We give you an honest read on that in the first response rather than a number designed to win the instruction — and we tell you when a requirement is unrealistic for the budget.
Can you handle everything after the lease is signed?
Yes. Fit-out, furniture, power, connectivity, cleaning, security coordination and day-to-day facilities management all sit with the same desk. Most clients move straight from the search into that.
We only need an address, not a building.
Then you want a virtual office, and it is considerably cheaper than a lease. An address, a telephone number, reception cover and meeting-room hours when you visit.
Can you find warehouses and yards as well?
Yes, where the requirement runs beyond an office — warehousing, yards, and mixed commercial-industrial premises, usually alongside a logistics or project requirement.
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City, district, size, budget, lease or purchase. We will come back with what we know and what we can find.
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