Q business centre in Astana
Q is a Class A business centre at 15 Kabanbay Batyr Avenue, letter A, in the Nura district. Seven floors, 22,743 sq m of lettable area and an underground car park for 700 cars. The building is assembled from blocks, so tenants quote the address together with the block designation — block B, for example. Below are the make-up of the complex, the engineering, the transport logic of the district and what to look at when choosing a unit.
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Building details
- Building class: A
- Address: проспект Кабанбай батыра, 15, литера А
- District: Нура
- City: Астана
- Floors: 7
- Rent rate: 15 000 ₸/м²/мес, замер 2025-10-03
- Rentable area: 22 743 м²
- Parking: 700 мест
- Management company: Vostok Invest Group
Building systems
Центральное кондиционирование и приточно-вытяжная вентиляция. Сейсмостойкость — 9 баллов. Подземный паркинг на 700 мест. Здание блочной структуры: арендаторы указывают адрес с указанием блока (например, блок Б).
Notable tenants
- АО «Самрук-Энерго» (блок Б, 3–7 этажи)
On-site amenities
- аптека
- банкомат
- больница поблизости
- жилой комплекс рядом
- кафе
- кинотеатр
- магазины
- рестораны
- салоны красоты
- фитнес-клуб
- гостиница рядом
Similarly named building: В Алматы есть собственный бизнес-центр «Q» на улице Желтоксан — это другой объект, уже собранный в каталоге по Алматы. Астанинский Q стоит на проспекте Кабанбай батыра, 15, литера А, и работает в паре с соседним Q2 (Кабанбай батыра, 15/1).
Available space
There are no open listings for this building right now: owners do not publish every block. We will put together options on request — send a request or browse the Almaty business centre directory.
Other business centres nearby
- SAAD — Нура district
- The Square — Нура district
- Q2 — Нура district, class A
- Quorum — Ауэзовский district, class B
See also: the Almaty business centre directory, Nurly Tau business centre, office rent in Almaty.
What the building is
Q forms a pair with the neighbouring Q2 building at 15/1 Kabanbay Batyr Avenue. Both are Class A, both are managed by the same structure, and the market often mentions them together — yet the buildings are different: Q has 22,743 sq m of lettable area, Q2 around 16,000 sq m. A practical rule follows for a tenant: an offer 'in Q' has to be verified with the address and the letter, otherwise you can turn up at the wrong building for a viewing and end up with a block in the lease that you never saw.
The main feature of Q is its geometry. Seven floors and almost twenty-three thousand square metres of lettable area give a typical level of around three thousand two hundred metres. That is four times the typical floor of Astana Tower (500 sq m) and twice the floor plate of Moskva (1,680 sq m). Such a plate belongs to a format that is rare for the city: most business buildings in Astana are towers with narrow floors, where a large company inevitably spreads out vertically.
A wide floor plate is not an abstract merit but a concrete saving in how work is organised. A large tenant can seat a whole division on one level: no lifts between departments, no duplication of meeting rooms and back-of-house space on every floor, one reception zone and one security post. For a company renting several thousand metres, a horizontal layout usually gives a smaller loss of area to corridors and vertical links than the same area spread across four or five levels of a tower. There is a flip side too: on a wide floor the depth of the space is greater, and workplaces in the middle of the plate get less light from the windows.
The building is managed by Vostok Invest Group. The fact that the office part is handled by a management structure rather than by the owner of a unit directly is worth taking into account when planning the move: reconfiguration, delivery of furniture, connection of equipment and works outside business hours all follow the management company's rules in buildings like this. Request those rules before signing the lease — they determine how long preparing the space will actually take.
A separate note about the name. Almaty has its own Q business centre on Zheltoksan Street — that is a different property. The Astana Q stands at 15 Kabanbay Batyr Avenue, letter A, and works in a pair with Q2 at 15/1. Matching names of buildings in different cities are a common reason for unsuitable options ending up in a shortlist, so when searching by name always check the city and the street.
Building services and engineering
The engineering matches the stated class: central air conditioning and supply and exhaust ventilation rather than the split systems found even in buildings classed as A. The difference shows not in the documents but in the daily life of the office. A central system holds temperature and air exchange across an open space as a whole and is designed for dense occupancy; a set of splits divides the space into zones with different microclimates, makes noise next to workplaces and needs separate servicing of the indoor units, which usually falls to the tenant.
Seismic resistance of 9 points is stated separately for the building. For Astana, unlike Almaty, this is not a mandatory parameter, and its presence indicates a margin of structural strength. The car park is underground, with 700 spaces: across 22,743 sq m of lettable area that is one space per 32 sq m. Only two properties in the capital do better: Q2 has the same 700 spaces across 16,619 sq m, or one per 24 sq m, and the EXPO office complex has one per 11 sq m. Emerald Tower follows with one space per 35 sq m, while Kaskad in the same business core has one space per 492 sq m. For a company with a large headcount this is the parameter that often turns out to matter more in negotiations than the rent: a shortage of spaces can only be solved by renting parking elsewhere, and that line of costs does not shrink over time.
Around the building there is dense mixed development rather than an office monocluster. Nearby are a residential complex and a hotel, a cinema, restaurants and cafés, a fitness club, beauty salons, shops, a pharmacy and a cash machine, with a hospital close by. For staff this means the lunch break and everyday errands are covered on foot, without a car; for the company it means the building does not empty in the evening and suits departments on shifted or shift schedules. The hotel nearby makes it easier to receive visiting colleagues, and the residential complex means that over time some staff may move within walking distance.
- central air conditioning
- supply and exhaust ventilation
- underground car park for 700 cars
- stated seismic resistance of 9 points
- block structure of the building with separate addressing of the blocks
- cafés, restaurants and shops nearby
- a fitness club and beauty salons
- a pharmacy and a cash machine
- a cinema, a hotel and a residential complex next door
- a hospital close by
Location and transport
The address is 15 Kabanbay Batyr Avenue, letter A, Nura district. A position on a main road is convenient for staff who drive and for clients coming to a meeting, but it has the usual flip side: at the morning and evening peak, getting in and out takes noticeably longer than the map shows in quiet hours. Before deciding, drive the route from the building to the district where most of the team lives at eight in the morning and around six in the evening — those two journeys say more about the future schedule than any description of transport accessibility.
Parking provision works as a transport argument here. At one space per 32 sq m parking stops being a bottleneck — unlike buildings where staff hunt for a space on the street in the morning. But the ratio for the building and the number of spaces allocated to a specific unit are different things: visitor spaces and tenant spaces are usually counted separately, and some spaces may be tied to the anchor tenant. Check how many spaces fall to your unit, how they are recorded in the lease and what happens when the headcount grows. If you regularly receive visitors or handle courier logistics, look at the same time at how the entrance to the underground car park is arranged for guests.
Who it suits and what to check when choosing a unit
The anchor tenant is known: Samruk-Energy JSC occupies block B from the third to the seventh floor — that is, effectively the whole height of one of the blocks. State companies of that level choose a site by formal criteria and sign long leases, so the mix of neighbours in the building is stable, while the requirements for access control and security are above the market average. For a tenant this is both reliability of the site and a stricter regime: contractor access, works outside business hours and loading arrangements are approved rather than settled on the spot.
By profile the building suits companies that need one large level rather than a set of small rooms: operational departments and contact centres, back offices of financial companies, engineering and product teams, service centres of large corporations. Class A with central climate control and high parking provision cover the two most frequent requirements in a relocation brief. It also makes sense for a small company to look at the building, but its task is different — to find a unit of a sensible size in a plate designed from the outset for a large tenant, and to check that access to it does not run through a neighbour's zone.
At a viewing check several things that are not in the listing. First, lift traffic at the morning peak: with seven floors and a wide plate there are more people on a floor than in a tower, but the ride is shorter, so what matters is not the speed of the cars but the number of lifts serving your unit and how the turnstiles in the lobby are arranged. Second, the visitor route: does the unit have its own entrance, where are guests met, does the visitor flow cross the working area. Third, the condition of the fit-out and what exactly is included in the rent: Class A space is often let in shell condition, and the refurbishment budget can turn out to be comparable to a year of rent.
Request separately the floor plan of your particular unit with the areas marked. With a block structure, the numbering of rooms and the areas in the general material for the building and in the documents for a specific unit can diverge, and you pay according to the lease, not the brochure. At the same time, go through the commercial side with the owner: the lease term and renewal conditions, the step and frequency of indexation, the make-up of service charges and what counts as over and above the rent, the conditions for an early exit and the size of the security deposit, who pays for the fit-out design and its approval with the management company.
What to compare before deciding
The rent as of October 2025 is 15,000 ₸ per sq m per month, level with Astana Tower, Q2 and Downtown. The practical conclusion: a shortlist is assembled from buildings in one price group, and the decision is taken not on the price per metre but on the full cost per workplace — rent plus service charges, plus parking, plus the one-off fit-out budget, divided by the number of employees who actually fit into the unit.
The first obvious property to compare is the neighbouring Q2 with around 16,000 sq m of lettable area. The buildings share an owner and a class but differ in size and geometry. If you need one large level, the choice is effectively predetermined; if you need several hundred metres, it is worth viewing both blocks and comparing not the rent but the layout: where the unit sits closer to the lift lobby, where there are fewer internal corridors, where the windows face the direction that suits you.
A separate note about the total area figure. Market descriptions give 39,000 sq m identically for Q and for the neighbouring Q2, even though the buildings differ in lettable area and number of floors. A matching figure for two properties with the same owner is a characteristic sign of a description copied without checking, so the total area cannot be treated as established: it has to be requested from the owner with documents. Floor layouts are more reliably verified against the property's own material rather than against general building profiles.
The last parameter of comparison is how ready the space is. A unit with completed fit-out costs more in rent but requires neither a refurbishment budget nor several months of downtime. Space in shell and core condition is cheaper, yet the move-in date has to absorb the design, the approval with the management company and the works themselves. For a team that has to be on site this quarter, the difference in timing usually outweighs the difference in rent.
Questions and answers
What class are the offices in the Q business centre and how much space is there?
Class A. The building has 7 floors and 22,743 sq m of lettable area, which gives a typical level of around three thousand two hundred metres. Market descriptions give the total area as 39,000 sq m, but the same figure is quoted for the neighbouring Q2, so it is worth requesting from the owner with documents.
Where is the Q business centre in Astana?
Astana, 15 Kabanbay Batyr Avenue, letter A, Nura district. It works in a pair with Q2 at 15/1. Note that Almaty has its own Q business centre on Zheltoksan Street — a different property, so when searching by name check the city and the street.
Is there parking in the building?
Yes, an underground car park for 700 cars. Across 22,743 sq m of lettable area that is one space per 32 sq m — the third best figure in the capital in our selection, after the EXPO office complex (one per 11 sq m) and Q2 (one per 24 sq m). How many spaces are allocated to a specific unit and how they are recorded is agreed separately in the lease.
What engineering does the building have?
Central air conditioning and supply and exhaust ventilation rather than split systems. Seismic resistance of 9 points is stated separately. When selecting space, check who services the climate system and whether that service is included in the service charge.
Who rents offices in the building?
The anchor tenant is Samruk-Energy JSC: the company occupies block B from the 3rd to the 7th floor, that is the whole height of one of the blocks. The building is managed by Vostok Invest Group, and the rules for works in the space are agreed with it.
How can I find out current availability and rents?
Owners do not publish some units openly. The rent as of October 2025 is 15,000 ₸ per sq m per month, but the make-up of service charges and the terms for a specific unit are agreed separately. Send a request and we will collect the current options in the building and comparable offers in Astana.
See also
ТОО «Nurly Tau Realty (Нурлы Тау Реалти)», БИН 171040029589, 050000, г. Алматы, Бостандыкский район, пр. Аль-Фараби, дом 15, н.п. 21г. Тел. +7 702 444 89 98, info@nurlytau.kz.