Raheja Mall Office for Rent, Sohna Road Gurgaon

No rent is published for Raheja Mall. A 1,262 sq ft furnished office is offered for lease there with no rate attached, and that is the whole of it. What the surrounding listings do publish is two Sohna Road corridor quotes — and both of them are stated on carpet area, which is a trap worth more attention than the missing number.

The carpet trap, worked out

Almost every office rate in Gurugram is quoted on chargeable or super area. These two are not:

The conversion is just the loading factor — the difference between the area you can walk on and the area you pay for. At the 30 to 35 per cent typical of a Gurugram commercial building, a carpet rate divides down by about a quarter to a third.

So a Rs 66.67 carpet quote and a Rs 66.67 chargeable quote are not the same offer, and the gap is roughly Rs 17 per sq ft a month. On 1,262 sq ft that is about Rs 21,000 a month, or Rs 2.5 lakh a year, lost to a word nobody reads.

Before you compare any two office quotes in this city, ask which basis each one uses. It is the cheapest question in commercial property and the one most often skipped.

What Raheja Mall office space should cost

With no published rate for the building, reason from the corridor. Everything below is on a chargeable-area basis so the numbers are comparable:

On that evidence, expect Raheja Mall office space in the Rs 40 to Rs 60 range on chargeable area, with the level and the finish deciding where in the band you land. Treat that as an estimate with its workings shown, not as a quotation — and use it to test whatever number you are given.

If you are offered materially more than Rs 60, ask what justifies it. If you are offered materially less, ask which floor and what condition.

Offices above a mall, again

Raheja Mall is a G+4 shopping mall at Sector 47 near Sohna Road, in the D1 Block, Malibu Town area, with a food court, an open area for live shows and multi-halls set up for banquets or a cineplex. Office space sits in the same building as all of that.

This research keeps arriving at the same building type, and the same four cautions apply every time:

• Services run on a mall's day. Air conditioning, lifts and security are provisioned around shopping and event hours. A team working late or at weekends must establish in writing what is available and at what cost.
• Parking is shared with shoppers. On a Saturday, and on any evening with a live show in the open area, your staff compete with footfall for the same basement.
• Event noise is real. An open area for live shows and halls booked for banquets sit under or beside your floor. Ask what the calendar looks like.
• Floor plates are shaped around the retail — atria, escalator voids and service cores — so contiguous area is rarely as clean as the number suggests.

This site found exactly this on MG Road, where a 32-store mall's retail now earns no more than plain office space, and on Sohna Road itself at Omaxe. None of it makes the space bad; all of it makes the rate negotiable.

The building's one genuine distinction

Raheja Mall is published as an energy-efficient building, with current climatological controls, rainwater harvesting and a waste-disposal system. On a Sohna Road mall of this vintage that is an unusual specification to advertise, and it is worth testing rather than dismissing: ask for the actual electricity cost per sq ft a month that the occupiers pay, because an energy-efficient building that cannot show you a lower running cost is describing an intention.

Where it can show you one, that saving belongs in your comparison alongside the rent. A building at Rs 55 with genuinely lower power bills can beat one at Rs 50 without them.

What to establish before you sign

1. Carpet or chargeable — on the rent, and on the area of the unit. This is the largest single variable on this page.
2. The maintenance charge per sq ft a month. On this batch's evidence a serviced building runs Rs 14 to Rs 19, and a mall as much as Rs 26.
3. Which floor, and what sits directly below you.
4. Air conditioning and lift hours beyond mall trading hours, and the cost of running them.
5. The events calendar for the open area and the banquet halls.
6. The measured electricity cost per sq ft, to test the energy-efficiency claim.
7. How the rate compares once maintenance is added, as it is at Millennium Plaza, where Rs 18 of maintenance moves a Rs 90 rent to Rs 108.

Frequently asked questions

What is the office rent in Raheja Mall, Sohna Road Gurgaon?

No rate is published for the building. A 1,262 sq ft furnished office is offered for lease with no rent attached. Reasoning from the corridor average on a chargeable-area basis — a Sector 49 furnished office at about Rs 33, Omaxe Gurgaon Mall at Rs 33 to Rs 70 by level, Sohna Road offices generally at Rs 25 to Rs 60 — expect something in the Rs 40 to Rs 60 range, with the floor and the finish deciding where. That is an estimate with its workings shown, not a quotation.

Carpet area vs chargeable area: what is the difference?

Carpet is the area you can walk on; chargeable or super area adds your share of lobbies, cores and common space. The gap is the loading factor, typically 30 to 35 per cent in a Gurugram commercial building. It matters because the two Sohna Road quotes in this research are stated on carpet: Rs 66.67 per sq ft carpet is about Rs 49 to Rs 51 on chargeable area, and Rs 124.22 carpet is about Rs 92 to Rs 96. Mixing the two bases overstates a rate by roughly a third.

How much money does the area basis actually move?

About Rs 17 per sq ft a month on the office quote here, between Rs 66.67 carpet and its chargeable equivalent. On a 1,262 sq ft unit that is roughly Rs 21,000 a month, or about Rs 2.5 lakh a year. It is the cheapest question in commercial property and the one most often skipped.

What are the problems with taking an office above a mall?

Four things, every time. Building services are provisioned around trading hours, so late or weekend working needs written confirmation and a cost. Parking is shared with shoppers, and worse on event evenings. An open area for live shows and halls booked for banquets generate noise, so ask for the calendar. And floor plates are shaped around atria and escalator voids, so contiguous area is rarely as clean as the number suggests. None of it is disqualifying; all of it is negotiable.

Is the energy-efficiency claim worth anything?

Only if it is genuinely cheaper to run, and only a number shows that. The building is published as energy efficient with current climatological controls, rainwater harvesting and waste disposal, which is an unusual specification to advertise on a Sohna Road mall of this vintage. Ask for the actual electricity cost per sq ft a month that occupiers pay. If it is genuinely lower, that saving belongs in your comparison beside the rent — a building at Rs 55 with real savings can beat one at Rs 50 without them. If nobody can produce the figure, the claim is an intention.

Where exactly is Raheja Mall?

It is located at Sector 47 near Sohna Road, in the D1 Block, Malibu Town area of Gurugram. It is a G+4 building with retail, a food court, an open area for live shows and multi-halls suited to banquets or a cineplex, with commercial units published from about 1,000 sq ft to 10,000 sq ft.