Office Malta’s catalogue is based on the public OfficeSpace.Rent available collection ↗. Prices are asking prices. Source properties marked for sale (including titles that say “for sale”) are excluded from rental search and rental statistics, and are retained in a separate sale collection. Statuses are source indications. Neither is a completed transaction or a guarantee of availability.
How does the best-value screen work?
The best-value collection includes source-listed rentals whose comparable asking rate is at least 20% below the arithmetic mean for their canonical zone and office type. Groups need 15–25 selected unique quotations; conventional offices below 50 m² are excluded, and the subject is included only if selected. Conventional rates use annual rent per advertised m²; serviced rates use monthly price per supplier-advertised desk. No price outliers are removed merely to match editorial guide bands. Only active OfficeSpace.Rent source listings enter comparisons. No competitor or supplemental advertisement feed is used. The page shows the mean, sample, observed range and median, and sorts by lowest monthly asking rent by default. Rankings recalculate from every validated daily snapshot.
Complete-source import audit
The November 2026 completeness audit cross-checked all 41 public source-index pages (4,021 property references) against 56 locality-filtered available archives. It found 901 available-labelled records, which include offices, sales, other commercial uses and incomplete marketing pages—not 901 offices. We imported 348 additional clearly identified office rental and sale listings, retained their full source details and photos, and marked two previously imported rented listings unavailable.
Fifty-five of those imports have supplier detail references that differ from their archive/post identifiers. Both are preserved, the discrepancy is flagged, and they stay out of rent benchmarks until reviewed. Non-office and unclear records remain in the audit ledger rather than being presented as offices. Download the coverage and review ledger.
What is counted?
One unique property URL is one listing. Duplicate appearances of the same URL are removed. Separate units in one building can remain separate listings. Properties may be marketed in more than one configuration, so the listing count is not a count of buildings or a measure of vacant stock.
What does “available” mean?
“Listed available” identifies membership of the source collection. A future start date in the title is displayed separately. The source’s own status date is retained on the property page. Confirm an exact move-in date and reservation status with the agent.
How are prices calculated?
Monthly amounts are the advertised card prices. Our median is the middle valid positive asking price after sorting; an even sample uses the mean of the two middle values. Annual rent per square metre is monthly asking rent × 12 ÷ advertised area. VAT, services, terrace treatment, optional extras, and unit configurations can differ.
How are serviced offices compared?
Serviced listings form a separate sample. Divide each positive monthly asking price by its supplier-advertised desk count, then calculate the median across eligible listings. Show the sample size and quoted per-desk range. Exclude missing desk counts and prices; never substitute a floor-area capacity estimate. Per-desk prices are derived comparisons of the quoted office package, not a promise that desks can be rented individually.
What is excluded from the conventional-office comparison?
Serviced/inclusive packages identified from supplier titles or explicit utilities-plus-shared-facility descriptions are shown separately because their packages can include services and shared facilities. Missing or non-positive prices and areas are excluded from calculations requiring those fields. We do not silently replace missing measurements.
Can this show a market trend?
A single snapshot cannot show a time trend. The rental history page charts saved, completed full-source scans with exact observations and sample sizes. Daily snapshots are retained after successful refreshes, but changes in the mix of listings can change medians without any landlord changing a rent. A repeated-property comparison needs a sufficient series and a defined methodology before it can be treated as a trend.
Listing rules for every daily update
Current rule version: 2026-11-03.2. Every imported listing keeps its supplier reference and stable URL. The same normalised facts generate titles, descriptions, image labels, availability notices, structured data, CSV exports and AI reference files. Detail-page unavailability overrides archive membership. Sales remain separate from rentals; serviced desk comparisons use supplier-advertised desks only.
Duplicate identities, unsupported source URLs and conflicting positive prices or areas block publication of the refreshed snapshot. The previous complete catalogue and its checked date remain in place. New listings use the same editorial templates and calculation methods automatically. Read the machine-readable listing rules.
Daily and weekly freshness checks
The daily update runs at 06:00 Europe/Malta and refreshes the available OfficeSpace.Rent catalogue. A separate weekly check runs on Mondays at 07:00 Europe/Malta to validate the latest OfficeSpace.Rent source snapshot and consistency between the rent index, locality summaries and Best Value. Daily verified source changes update the calculations; uncertain availability or unresolved source issues are withheld for review.
Page dates distinguish listing source checks, benchmark source checks, automated consistency checks and editorial reviews. Failed or incomplete checks retain the previous completion date. An automation does not label unchanged guide or legal text as newly reviewed. Freshness dates are evidence of checks, not a promise of search-engine ranking or current landlord confirmation.
How are updates handled?
The updater reads the full unfiltered public property index and filters its Available labels locally, because the supplier’s taxonomy query filter and global archive pagination are incomplete. It also reads the available archive and rechecks tracked listings, including those beyond the archive cap. Every candidate detail is fetched before a complete snapshot is promoted. Source-label removal or a rented detail removes active availability. Failed or incomplete runs retain the previous catalogue and its original checked date. Removed properties leave active search results after a successful refresh. Primary photographs use compressed responsive WebP copies where available; remaining gallery photographs are requested from the source CDN when viewed.
Capacity and locality estimates
Estimated desks / people use 10–12 m² per person across the advertised floor area, rounded down at both ends. This is a planning range, not certified occupancy. Supplier-stated desk counts remain separate. OpenStreetMap features are measured within 1.5 km of a named locality centre; distances are straight lines and do not identify the building entrance or a walking route. No numeric Walk Score or safety rating is assigned.
Current import
Checked 13 Nov 2026. 668 unique source listings; 35 pagination links advertised by the source, with 10 missing archive pages skipped. These missing links are reported rather than presented as extra inventory.
Download the current listing facts (CSV) · View the statistical snapshot