Shoreditch & Tech Belt is a prime-tier Class A submarket of London with average asking rent around £80/sqft/yr · ≈ $102 PSF/yr USD.
Old Street to Whitechapel — creative-class spine. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: £80/sqft/yr · ≈ $102 PSF/yr USD
Shoreditch and the Old Street roundabout cluster remain London's creative-tech address. The market has matured well past its 'Silicon Roundabout' branding into a stable, premium creative-services district.
Tech scaleups, advertising and creative agencies, fintech, design studios.
Mixed loft and Class A; floor plates 8-20,000 sqft.
Old Street, Liverpool Street (Elizabeth Line), Aldgate East.
Strong reach to Hackney, North London, and Essex.
Boxpark, Spitalfields, Brick Lane, Broadway Market.
Shoreditch & Tech Belt is one of 7 Class A submarkets we cover in London, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around £80/sqft/yr · ≈ $102 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader London Class A stock, Shoreditch & Tech Belt typically attracts Tech scaleups, advertising and creative agencies, fintech, design studios and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.
Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Shoreditch & Tech Belt: City of London, Mayfair & St James's, King's Cross, Canary Wharf. The full London submarket atlas is at /cities/london.
For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Shoreditch & Tech Belt, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:
Terminology specific to London Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.
Reviewed by Samuel Okafor — EMEA contributing editor. Last updated 2026-04-15. See our methodology and editorial standards.