Solicitors Regulation Authority register data
SRA-regulated solicitors in England and Wales: 8,825 authorised firms by town
Every law firm the SRA authorises, taken from the regulator's own firm data feed on 6 October 2026, with offices, the areas of law each firm reported to the SRA and, for the 3,427 firms that report residential property work, a link to the prices they must publish under the SRA Transparency Rules. Grouped by local authority district and listed in register order. No firm can pay to move up that order.
Search 8,800+ SRA-authorised firms by name, town or SRA number.
How SRA regulation works
The Solicitors Regulation Authority authorises firms in England and Wales in three forms. A recognised body is a firm owned and managed by lawyers (6,173 here). A licensed body, often called an alternative business structure, may have non-lawyer owners or managers (1,363). A recognised sole practice is one solicitor practising on their own account (1,289). All three carry the same SRA number system, the same Standards and Regulations, compulsory professional indemnity insurance and access to the Legal Ombudsman and the SRA Compensation Fund. Every firm here had authorisation status YES on the snapshot date; firms that have ceased, been revoked or intervened in are excluded, as are the roughly 14,000 unregulated organisations that employ solicitors but are not themselves SRA-authorised.
2,392 firms run more than one practising office, and 5,470 carry a company registration number that matched a Companies House record, which the firm pages show as dated facts alongside the SRA entry.
What "areas of law reported to the SRA" means
Once a year each firm tells the SRA which of 26 areas of law it delivered. The SRA publishes those answers on its register with the caption that they are "the areas of law that the law firm has told us they delivered, in an annual report". This site uses exactly that meaning: a reported area is a statement about past work, self-declared, up to a year old. It is not a specialism, an accreditation or a promise that the firm will take your matter. 581 firms have no areas recorded, almost always because they were authorised after the last return.
| Area of law (SRA wording) | Firms | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Litigation - Other | 3,501 | 40% |
| Family / Matrimonial | 3,484 | 39% |
| Property - Residential | 3,427 | 39% |
| Wills, Trusts and Tax Planning | 3,319 | 38% |
| Property - Commercial | 3,124 | 35% |
| Probate and Estate Administration | 3,085 | 35% |
| Landlord and Tenant (Commercial and Domestic) | 2,589 | 29% |
| Employment | 2,385 | 27% |
| Immigration | 1,960 | 22% |
| Commercial / Corporate Work for Non-Listed Companies and Other | 1,918 | 22% |
| Children | 1,685 | 19% |
| Criminal | 1,644 | 19% |
The Transparency Rules: prices must be published
Since December 2018, and in their current form from 11 April 2025, the SRA Transparency Rules require any authorised firm that advertises residential conveyancing (freehold or leasehold sale or purchase, mortgage or remortgage) to publish on its website the total price or a range, the basis of its charges, who does the work and their experience, likely disbursements, VAT treatment, and the stages and timescales. The same duty covers uncontested probate, immigration applications, motoring offences at the magistrates' court and unfair-dismissal claims. Firms without a website must provide the information on request. That is why every conveyancing firm listed on this site links out to its own website: the price is the firm's published figure, not ours. See our guide to the rules and the national conveyancing fee benchmarks to judge what you find.
Firms by region
| Region | Firms | Residential property | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 3,153 | 929 (29%) | 4,307 |
| North West | 1,217 | 439 (36%) | 2,109 |
| South East | 974 | 430 (44%) | 1,657 |
| West Midlands | 687 | 293 (43%) | 1,186 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 625 | 240 (38%) | 1,201 |
| East of England | 599 | 276 (46%) | 1,035 |
| South West | 545 | 268 (49%) | 1,050 |
| East Midlands | 453 | 206 (45%) | 838 |
| Wales | 352 | 220 (63%) | 652 |
| North East | 215 | 126 (59%) | 367 |
| England | 5 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
Region is the ONS region of the head office postcode. Offices count practising offices (head office and branches) in England and Wales; registered-office-only addresses are excluded.
Which firms actually publish their conveyancing prices
A signal you can see on every town page, next to the firm it belongs to: Prices publishedfee table
Rule 1 of the SRA Transparency Rules makes publishing conveyancing prices compulsory, not optional, for any authorised firm that advertises residential conveyancing to the public. 3,427 of the firms on this register report residential property work, so the rule bites on all of them. The interesting question is not what the rule says but which firms you can actually check before you pick up the phone.
So we went and looked. On 28 August 2026 an automated read of 1,493 of those firms' own websites found a conveyancing price page on 739 of them, 409 of those setting the fees out in a table rather than a sentence. Those 739 firms carry the badge, on their own firm page and on the 277 town pages where they have an office. The link goes straight to the firm's page, never to a quote form of ours: the price you read is the firm's own published figure.
Read the duty in full on our guide to the Transparency Rules, then judge what you find against the national conveyancing fee benchmarks. If a firm publishes nothing, the rules still require it to give you the same information on request, in writing.
Conveyancing cost pages with firm lists
The 23 city cost pages carry the verified local fee band, worked examples and the nearest SRA-regulated conveyancing firms to the city centre:
Firms by town
One pin per town page, placed at the mean position of that district's practising offices and sized by how many firms there report residential property work.
- City of London176
- Birmingham151
- Westminster141
- Manchester121
- Leeds97
- Camden82
Outline: England and Wales, drawn as the nine English ONS regions and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland are not drawn: the SRA regulates England and Wales only.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Towns are local authority districts (the ONS admin district of each office postcode), so every office lands in exactly one town and the boundaries are official. A town page exists where at least five firms report residential property work; 10 smaller districts fall below that line and their firms appear on the nearest city page and on their own firm pages. Figures are conveyancing firms / all authorised firms with an office in the district.
London (33 towns)
South East (63 towns)
East of England (42 towns)
South West (26 towns)
West Midlands (29 towns)
East Midlands (31 towns)
North West (34 towns)
Yorkshire and The Humber (15 towns)
North East (12 towns)
Wales (22 towns)
Questions about the register
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How many firms do residential conveyancing?
What does "areas of law reported to the SRA" mean?
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What does the "Prices published" badge mean?
Is this list a ranking or a recommendation?
solicitorcost.com includes data supplied by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Source: SRA Firm data web service (terms 1 July 2020, attribution required); firm status, offices and areas of law as reported by the SRA on 6 October 2026. Areas of law are self-reported by each firm in its annual return and describe work it told the SRA it delivered, not a live service menu or a quality mark. Companies House fields from the Basic Company Data bulk file dated 1 May 2026. Geocoding by postcodes.io: contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026. No firm on this site is sponsored, ranked or endorsed, and nothing here implies SRA endorsement of this site.
Method and source list: methodology. Firms can correct a listing by emailing [email protected] from the firm page's "Verify your listing" button.