Flexible coworking has long been an Oslo phenomenon. Over the past few years we have watched the concept spread beyond the city core, most recently when Evolve opened a new coworking space in central Stavanger, and now Lørenskog has one of its own. In December 2025, Lius opened its doors at Skårersletta 65, right in the centre and fourteen minutes by train from Oslo S. We are a little late to write about it, but the news is too good to pass over in silence.
Lius is not an ordinary serviced office. Behind the venture stand the business association Lørenskog i Utvikling together with Romerike Sparebank, and the building is described as a knowledge and development arena as much as a place to sit and work. That is a distinction worth noting, and one we will return to.
What Lius offers
The building holds 1,700 square metres on the second floor, right next to the Triaden shopping centre. Here you will find everything from a flexible lounge seat to fixed desks in an open-plan area and private offices for smaller teams. Prices start at 1,750 kroner a month for a founder's seat and rise to 9,000 kroner and above for a private office. The rent includes coffee, internet, cleaning, printing and furniture, and not least membership in the Lørenskog i Utvikling network.
The premises are open around the clock with app-based access, and come with fourteen meeting rooms, nine quiet rooms, a podcast studio and an amphitheatre for talks and seminars. That last detail says something about the ambition. Lius wants to be a meeting place, not just floor space.
Managing director Kim Hamli is clear about what drives the venture. "At Lius we get up in the morning to create local value and local jobs. At the same time, we are helping to lift the region, our country and the world we live in," he says. That is a larger ambition than most serviced offices set out, and it explains a good deal about why the building is put together the way it is.
From around ten companies at the opening, the house has grown to more than fifty in a short time. Among the tenants you will find Romerike Sparebank, the law firm Halvorsen & Co, Aktiv Eiendomsmegling and a healthy mix of founders, small and medium-sized businesses and local players.
Spacefinder's take: The timing is interesting. The market for flexible offices in Greater Oslo is under pressure. UNION's coworking survey from the winter of 2025 shows that occupancy has fallen to 69 percent, while centres need to clear 82 percent to turn a profit. Only four in ten operators report that they are in profitable territory. That Lius is growing quickly in a market like this probably has less to do with chasing occupancy and more to do with the building being locally rooted. When an entire business network and a local savings bank stand behind it, the coworking space becomes part of something larger than the square metres. It is a model we think more people will be looking at closely.
A location that counts
The location is a large part of the point. Lius sits five metres from Triaden, around half a kilometre from the Metro shopping centre and Lørenskog hus, and three kilometres from Ahus. It is twelve kilometres to central Oslo, and the train from Lørenskog station takes about fourteen minutes to Oslo S. For a company weighing up a move out of the most expensive city-centre streets while keeping a short commute into town, the arithmetic adds up quickly.
Lørenskog is no sleepy suburb either. The municipality passed 51,000 residents at the end of 2025 and is growing by around three percent a year, among the fastest in the country. The centre is being rebuilt as we speak, Skårersletta is turning into an urban high street, and several thousand new homes are planned around the hub. Ahus is the municipality's largest workplace with around twelve thousand employees, and Coca-Cola has had its head office and production at Robsrud for nearly three decades.
What the opening tells us about the market
The traditional picture of the office market in Romerike has been an area with plenty of vacancy and rents that have stayed fairly flat over time. The companies that move tend to move within Romerike, and interest in large head-office relocations has been low. In a market like that, a well-run coworking space with a low barrier to entry is exactly what has been missing. You get a professional place to sit without committing to a long lease and a space of your own. For those who would rather sit centrally in Oslo, similar flexibility can be found in subletting and hidden vacancy, but the point is the same. The threshold for getting started becomes lower.
Some way down the line, the picture could change further. There has long been talk of extending the metro eastwards towards Lørenskog and Ahus, with a possible station in this very area. The plans are not funded yet, so it is too early to count on them, but they underline how centrally Lius has positioned itself should the development continue.
Frequently asked questions
Who is behind Lius? The business association Lørenskog i Utvikling together with Romerike Sparebank. The concept is run as a knowledge and development arena, not as a purely commercial serviced office.
What does a seat cost? From 1,750 kroner a month for a flexible seat, up to 9,000 kroner and more for a private office. Coffee, internet, cleaning, printing and furniture are included.
Where is the building? Skårersletta 65 in central Lørenskog, on the second floor right next to the Triaden shopping centre. Around fourteen minutes by train from Oslo S.
Is it suitable for small businesses? Yes. The building is made for everything from solo founders to teams that need a private office, and the tenant base is a mix of exactly those.
Wondering whether a coworking space like Lius is right for your business, or want to compare it with other available offices in and around Oslo? We have several of the Lius spaces listed on the marketplace, and at Spacefinder, advice and brokering are always free for tenants.
