Get the registered address: provision of registered address

Benefits of limited company with office address provided: there are solid reasons for registering a limited company with a registered office address provided by Coddan, whether you are based in the UK or overseas. Say you're a very small business like a cottage industry manufacturing traditional food products. You can't yet afford an expensive premises in a prime location, and you certainly can't afford somewhere like London. Maybe one day.

You definitely don't want your home disrupted by inspections and other intrusions, and if you’re renting, you might not be able to incorporate using that address as the landlord probably would not agree to it.

If you register your business with us, and avail of our office address service, your official place of business will be in a desirable business area, and upon request can even be in such sought-after places as London or Edinburgh or Belfast.

This official address will be printed on all of your documentation once your private company is registered. From there, we handle all of your incoming mail and forward it on to where you are actually based, which can be in the United Kingdom or anywhere overseas. It makes no difference if you want to move from where you currently are to somewhere else, as the official address still stands.

When choosing this type of company registration with a virtual business address, you need to be mindful of what the provider is promising. You don't want shoddy service down the line, with important mail not forwarded to you, or even misplaced or lost, which could be damaging to your business. At Coddan, we have many years' experience in handling our clients' registered address needs and we ensure that the management of our service always runs smoothly, so that your business does.

Some people consider it sufficient to just have a PO Box address for their new company, instead of having a virtual address, but because a PO Box is not an actual physical address, it is not considered one by the relevant government authorities such as Companies House and HM Revenue & Customs, and indeed they do not permit it. Our registered office addresses are, however, accepted by the authorities as an official trading address.

Our expert consultants can additionally advise clients about having a Single Alternative Inspection Location (SAIL). With this facility, a company limited by shares can have an external address for the purposes of inspections by the authorities. All company documentation and other official paperwork can be kept at that location so that inspectors have ready access to them.