The registered office address details of all limited companies incorporated in the UK are listed on the Companies House register. This is publicly available online, so you can easily access and search the register to find the registered office address of a company. It is also a legal requirement for registered office details to be displayed on company stationery and websites.
Designed to provide greater transparency and protect the general public from illegitimate companies, these disclosure requirements are one of the trade-offs that companies make to provide their owners with limited liability for business debts.
Finding the registered office address of a company
Companies House online search service is the first place you should look to find or verify a company’s registered office address. Government bodies such as Companies House and HMRC use the information listed here to send communications to incorporated businesses.
To find the registered address you are looking for, simply enter the company name on the ‘Search the register’ page of Companies House service. The registered office address of that company will appear under the company’s name.
If you click on the company name, you will also be able to view other publicly available information about the company, including:
- Name and service address of each director
- Name of every shareholder who is a person with significant control (PSC) in the company
- Filed company accounts
- Confirmation statements
- Business activities
If you want to see every registered office address that a company has used, select the ‘Filing history’ tab within the company’s listing. This will show you all document filings made by the company since its incorporation, including any change of registered office updates.
Legal requirements regarding the registered office address
The Companies Act 2006 stipulates that every company incorporated in the UK has to maintain a registered office address in the legal jurisdiction in which the company is registered (England and Wales, Wales only, Scotland, or Northern Ireland). It must also be an “appropriate address“, which rules out the use of a PO Box as a registered office.
The rules on where to display registered office addresses are set out in the Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business Regulations 2015. Letterheads and other stationery, such as invoices and order forms, as well as company websites, must include registered office details.
Unfortunately, due to lack of awareness and enforcement of these requirements, not all companies abide by the rules on displaying registered office address details.
Do not confuse different types of company addresses
It is not uncommon for companies to have many different addresses. For example, trading and business addresses (i.e. where the company carries out its trading activities) are not always the same as the company’s registered office address. There is no legal requirement for a trading or business address to be listed on public record.
Furthermore, the registered office address of a company may or may not be the same as the business owner’s residential address or the director’s service address.
Various third parties, such as company formation agents and address providers, offer different types of addresses for business use. At Quality Company Formations, we provide a London Registered Office Service, Service Address, and Business Address, which allows the use of our prestigious commercial addresses for such purposes.
These professional address services provide personal privacy to company directors and shareholders whilst also strengthening the professional image of the business.
I have a complaint with a builder. I have written letters to the address on Companies House (which we know is his address) but the letters are being returned as not at this address. Does the address on a Ltd company have to be correct on companies house? And if not how do I get court order to them? Thanks
Thank you for your kind enquiry, Jacki.
The directors of a limited company are legally responsible for ensuring the registered office address listed on Companies House is up to date at all times. With regards to a Court Order, you should be able to proceed to take Court proceedings against them even if they are no longer at that address. This is because a legal document is legally deemed as served if it is served to a company’s current registered office address as listed on Companies House.
In an instance where a court rules in your favour, bailiffs can use legal mechanism’s that are possibly not open to you to ascertain the trading address of the company, for the purposes of obtaining payment.
We trust this information is of use to you.
Kind regards,
The QCF Team
I would like the address of
Beanies groundwork and buisness services sheffield
Hi Tina
Thank you for your kind question.
To find the registered office address of a company, please use this link: Companies House Serivce.
I trust this answers your question. If there is anything else I can help you with – please let me know.
Kind regards,
The QCF Team
My sister had a company of the name “neomura” come and landscape her garden, they did an awful job and after she had paid 2/3 she refused to pay the last bit until the work had been completed as there were bits she was unhappy with and bits that had been quoted in the written quote and he was now saying would only be done if more was paid. He walked off the job leaving it in an awful state and unsafe in parts. I have looked at the website and it has no company address, and searched the companies house register but cannot find them? Please can you advise if I am missing something and if not, what do we do if they are trading as an unregistered company?
Thank you for your kind enquiry, Sabrina.
Unfortunately if they are trading as an unregistered company (i.e. as a sole trader or partnership), it may be hard to track them down and they are purposely withholding this information to avoid irate customers such as yourself.
We would recommend you contact Trading Standards about this company, who may have had similar complaints and have an open investigation running. You can find your local Trading Standards office here: https://www.gov.uk/find-local-trading-standards-office
We hope this is of help to you. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to leave a comment.
Regards,
The QCF Team
I would like to know registered office for opodo/edreams. They haven’t given me full refund
Thank you for your kind enquiry, Abdirahman.
A search on Opodo’s and Edreams’ website shows that their company is registered in Spain. The following information can be found on the bottom of their websites: “Vacaciones eDreams, S.L. (Sociedad Unipersonal). Registered address (not open to the public): c/ Conde de Peñalver, 5, 1º Ext.Izq, 28006 Madrid, Spain. VAT number ESB-61965778. Registered with the Registro Mercantil de Madrid, Tomo 36897, Folio 121, Hoja M-660117.”
I trust this information is of use to you.
Regards,
Nicholas
I would like the address of a company:- easy life group.com
They are deducting unauthorised amounts from my bank. I have placed an order twice over a few years that have been satisfied with but this is wrong and needs to stop
Thank you for your enquiry, Stella.
I can confirm that upon investigation, the registered office address of Easylife Group Limited is: 11-13 Kings Terrace, London, NW1 0JP. Their company listing on Companies House can be found here: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05221840
I trust this information is of use to you.
Kind regards,
Tana