Rented company address: Prestige and accessibility

A company address in a German metropolis conveys success, professionalism, makes your company look serious and opens up the local and national market for you. With a prestigious corporate address as a virtual office in a physical location, you can take advantage of all these opportunities and more without renting a permanent office – and at an affordable price that everyone can afford. In return, you get a corporate address with office services that offer full flexibility and accessibility without having to be on site.

In this blog post, I’ll explain the benefits of renting a corporate address for founders, startups, freelancers and small business owners, as well as established companies from other cities or countries.

An exclusive company address is worth its weight in gold. But it is not enough to have an address in a metropolis such as Hamburg or Berlin; it must also be located in a prestigious area. Because new business contacts will not only form a first impression of you based on your concept and offer, but will also take a close look at where you are located, for example with Google Maps. Your private address in the letterhead then usually does not make a particularly professional and reliable impression. Companies located elsewhere also benefit from a prestigious corporate address, as it is easier to tap into the economically strong market as a “local” or to maintain business contacts if you move away.

When one hears the terms “rented company address”, “business address” or “virtual office”, associations such as “mailbox company” and similar half-silly things come to mind. But this is not true: rented company addresses are completely legal and a useful and recognized way to improve your external image and protect your privacy. They offer you the opportunity to use a metropolitan address in a prime location for your company on your correspondence, business cards, billing statement and website masthead, among other things. This way you avoid that your private address appears on the net or in registers and is accessible for everyone. In addition, you do not need to change your business equipment when you move and you can permanently work with the company address.

You can also use a company address as an address for official procedures, such as business registration and entry in the Chamber of Commerce. Only if, for example, the tax office asks for the address of the management, you have to indicate the address where you actually manage your company. In order for the company address to comply with all legal requirements, it must be ensured that it is a summonable address, i.e. an address at which you can receive official documents, summonses and registered letters and can be contacted at any time. This is provided by services such as mail service and reception. Even if you are not a resident of Germany, you can register a business with a rented company address and operate your business there – without having to be on site.

Basically, a company address is almost the same as a virtual office: you have a first-class business address, an optional company sign at the entrance, and a reliable reception and mail service that handles letters and parcels according to your specifications and informs you of every receipt or forwards the mail straight to your actual address – haptically in the case of parcels or scanned in the case of letters sent by e-mail. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) To save postage, you can of course also pick up the mail.

In the case of a virtual office, further services are added, which can usually be booked as a modular system. This classically includes a telephone service with call answering in your company name according to your specifications, which makes you continuously reachable during normal business hours, and a dedicated extension of the local telephone number. Sometimes the provider’s employees also take on other office services, which saves you from having to hire employees and frees up even more of their time.

As a rule, a corporate address also includes the option to upgrade to a haptic office form and downgrade again at any time. In this way, you can adapt the offer you use to the development of your company. Renting conference rooms and offices by the day, week or month is also possible for company address holders at special rates and is an interesting option. This means you only use services and premises when you need them – without ongoing costs. This way, you can face personal customer discussions or meetings with confidence.

If this blog post has helped you weigh the benefits of a corporate address – perhaps in sensible combination with a telephone service – for yourself, I look forward to telling you more about our Hamburg corporate addresses in prime locations. We have locations in HafenCity, in the renowned Rotherbaum area as well as in the famous Stadthöfe in the city center. Just write to me!

Until then, good luck to you at work and stay healthy!

With warm regards
Your Christian Schmidt