A new awards programme assessing residential conveyancers using transaction data has been launched with the aim of giving home movers greater transparency over firms’ performance.
The Best Conveyancer Guide Awards 2027 will assess more than 3,900 conveyancing firms that completed residential purchases in England and Wales over the past year.
Analysis by TwentyConvey uses Land Registry price-paid data and records of conveyancing companies completing AP1 forms, alongside information tracking how long properties were on the market and the period between an agreed sale and completion.
Firms are assessed on time to complete, time taken to make post-completion submissions, requisitions and changes in market share, with allowances made for those handling large numbers of leasehold or new-build transactions.
The top 10% of conveyancers are highlighted by the guide, with around 5% receiving gold awards and a further 5% receiving silver.
Firms are assessed within different size categories, ranging from those completing fewer than 150 transactions annually to national operators completing more than 1,251.
The awards, run by Leaders.inc and sponsored by LMS, will be announced at the EA Masters event on 3 November.
Joanna Knight OBE, chief executive of Leaders.inc, said: “The insight from the data helps conveyancing firms understand their competitive position and where they sit in a pecking order geographically, so they can improve their performance and see how they compare to other law firms.”
Richard Hinton, author at TwentyConvey, said: “The home mover has been starved of any clear objective insight into the conveyancing profession, since day zero.
“We analyse cold, hard data for the Best Conveyancer Guide award, assessing those companies worthy of an award, looking at an average across a whole year of a conveyancing firm’s cases to provide a more accurate picture of how a firm is actually performing.”
