What is a used office desk worth in the UK?

UK price guide

What is a used office desk worth?

Electric sit-stand desks ask roughly £85 to £330 a position, and the number that matters most is not in that range: a used Steelcase electric bench lists at £325 against an original price of £3,500. Office desks lose about nine tenths of their value, which is the single most important fact for anyone on either side of the deal.

Researched 23 October 2026. Asking prices, not sold prices — see the limits at the foot of this page.

What the market is asking, per desk or bench position

Measure	Asking	Source
Ergonomist 1200mm single electric	£195 + VAT	City Used Office Furniture (seller-published)
1400mm electric, per desk position	£249 + VAT	City Used Office Furniture (seller-published)
Staverton 1600mm double sit-stand bench, per position (min 4)	£275 + VAT	Kings Office Furniture (seller-published)
Steelcase electric bench (original price £3,500)	£325 + VAT	Kings Office Furniture (seller-published)
Refurbished 1400mm electric	£115	ORS Recycle (seller-published)
Non-electric 1200mm rectangular desk	£85	Coggin SOS (seller-published)
Senator 1200mm electric, refurbished (regular £1,299)	£549	The Designer Furniture Outlet (seller-published)

Why the range is that wide

Desks depreciate harder than almost anything else a business owns, and the Steelcase listing is the clearest illustration available: £325 against £3,500 new, which is better than ninety per cent gone. That is not a distressed sale, it is simply what the second-hand office market pays. The remaining spread between £85 and £549 is mostly mechanism — a fixed rectangular desk is a tabletop with legs, an electric sit-stand has a motor, a controller and a column that can fail — plus brand, and whether the lot is big enough for a dealer to bother with. Benches are quoted per position with minimum orders, so a four-position bench is one purchase and not four.

What moves the number

Electric, manual or fixed

The largest single driver. An electric sit-stand is worth roughly double a fixed desk of the same size, because the motor and controller are most of what a buyer is paying for.

Quantity, and matching

Twenty identical desks are worth far more per desk than twenty different ones. Offices are fitted out, not furnished one desk at a time, so a consistent lot is the thing dealers actually want.

Top condition and edge damage

The one part a buyer sees every day. Scratched or chipped tops can often be replaced more cheaply than the whole desk, which is exactly the argument a buyer will make.

Brand, within reason

Steelcase, Senator, Herman Miller and Haworth hold more value than unbranded, but note the Steelcase example: a strong brand still lost nine tenths. Brand moves you within the range, it does not escape it.

Whether anyone will take the whole lot

A full floor cleared in one visit is worth more than the sum of its desks, because the alternative for the seller is paying someone to remove them.

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The limits of these figures

These are asking prices, not sold prices, and almost all are dealer listings rather than completed sales.
Every figure here is seller-published by a dealer that refurbishes and resells, and several are discounted from a 'regular' or 'original' price set by the same dealer.
Almost all are quoted excluding VAT, so add 20% for the price a private buyer pays.
Bench prices are per desk position and often carry a minimum order, so the cost of the purchase is a multiple of the figure shown.
At least one source page appeared to be several years old when checked.

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