If you registered a company quickly, possibly years ago, possibly without thinking too hard about it at the time, there is a decent chance your home address ended up somewhere on the public record. Here is how to actually check, and what your options are if it turns out to be true.
What is actually checkable for free
ASIC's free search shows the registered office's locality (suburb and state, not the full street address) along with the company's basic details and lodged documents [ASIC, asic.gov.au].
The full registered office address, and the company's principal place of business, are visible in a current company extract, which can be purchased for a small fee through ASIC Connect.
Director and officeholder residential addresses are a separate matter entirely. As of February 2026, these are no longer shown in extracts purchased through ASIC's website, following a privacy reform aimed at reducing identity theft and harassment risk for company directors [ASIC, asic.gov.au].
What this means in practice: if you are listed as a director and your home happens to also be your company's registered office or principal place of business, that home address is still public, through those two fields specifically, not through the director listing.
How to check what ASIC actually has on file for your company
Go to ASIC's register search, search your company name or ACN, and look at the locality shown in the free summary.
If you want the full address confirmed, purchase a current company extract, which will show your registered office and principal place of business in full.
If either of those is your home address, that is the address currently visible to anyone who buys an extract or, in some cases, even in the free locality field depending on what is shown.
What to do if it is your home address
If you would rather your home address not sit on the public record, you have a few options.
Move your registered office and principal place of business to a different address. This requires lodging Form 484 with ASIC, and takes effect seven days after lodgement.
You need a genuine alternative address:
- An accountant's office with their written consent
- A virtual address service
If you have a genuine safety concern, rather than a general privacy preference, ASIC has a separate address suppression process for officeholders whose safety would be at risk if their address were public [ASIC, asic.gov.au].
This is a more involved process reserved for genuine risk situations.
Check your business name registration too, if you have one. This is a separate register from the companies register, and suppressing an address on one does not automatically affect the other.
Using a virtual address instead
Space Penguin offers virtual addresses in Sydney and Melbourne from $20 per month plus GST, with no setup fee and no lock-in.
The address can be used for your registered office, provided written occupier consent is confirmed directly with Space Penguin, and for your principal place of business and ABN registration.
Visit spacepenguin.io/virtual-address to get started.