Conveyancing contracts
UK public sector · 65 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 65
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £81k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £45.3m
- 64 of 65 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 44
- Suppliers
- 44
34 conveyancing contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most conveyancing contracts took 28% of them (18 of 65).
- The median contract, £81k, is close to the median across legal contracts (£90k).
- South East had the most contracts: 18, or 28% of the total.
Who buys conveyancing
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Homes England4 contracts£85k
- 2Maritime and Coastguard Agency4 contracts£61k
- 3Department for Transport3 contracts£4.0m
- 4Aster Group3 contracts£2.1m
- 5West Midlands Combined Authority3 contracts£438k
- 6Department for Work and Pensions2 contracts£33.0m
- 7MANYDOWN GARDEN COMMUNITIES LLP2 contracts£925k
- 8Oxfordshire County Council2 contracts£300k
- 9Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council2 contracts£200k
- 10Defence Infrastructure Organisation2 contracts£153k
Top conveyancing contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Browne Jacobson6 contracts£1.1m
- 2Eversheds Sutherland4 contracts£903k
- 3Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP3 contracts£315k
- 4DLA Piper3 contracts£36k
- 5Freeths2 contracts£350k
- 6Trowers & Hamlins2 contracts£300k
- 7BPE SOLICITORS LLP2 contracts£200k
- 8TLT LLP2 contracts£168k
- 9Burges Salmon2 contracts£160k
- 10Blake Morgan2 contracts£55k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Maritime and Coastguard Agency to DLA Piper · Awarded 23 September 2026
Oxford City Council to Browne Jacobson · Awarded 8 September 2026
Defence Infrastructure Organisation to Burges Salmon · Awarded 4 September 2026
West Midlands Combined Authority to Trowers & Hamlins · Awarded 24 August 2026
Ofcom to Burges Salmon · Awarded 20 August 2026
Department for Transport to Bevan Brittan LLP · Awarded 18 August 2026
Middlesbrough Council to HANOVER LAW LIMITED · Awarded 17 August 2026
Defence Infrastructure Organisation to Forsters LLP · Awarded 14 August 2026
Maritime and Coastguard Agency to DLA Piper · Awarded 11 August 2026
British Business Bank to Wake Smith Solicitors Limited · Awarded 6 August 2026
Largest
Department for Work and Pensions to Dentons · Awarded 12 March 2026
Department for Work and Pensions to supplier not published · Awarded 25 October 2025
MANYDOWN GARDEN COMMUNITIES LLP to Mills & Reeve · Awarded 26 June 2026
Department for Transport to Eversheds Sutherland · Awarded 1 December 2025
Aster Group to Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP · Awarded 1 April 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 63 · Wales 2
What is included
Legal work on the buyer's own land and buildings: acquisitions, disposals, conveyancing, leases, licences, landlord and tenant matters and property disputes.
- Acquisitions, disposals and conveyancing
- Property due diligence and land registration
- Leases, licences and deeds of variation
- Landlord and tenant advice and lease negotiation
- Sale and leaseback
- Agricultural tenancies
- Land and access negotiations
- Property lots of legal panels
- Property disputes and Lands Tribunal work
- Land matters instructed through general legal panels
What is not included
- Residential leasehold, service charges, right to buy and shared ownership for social landlords (leg.hous.social-housing-conveyancing)
- Social housing tenancies and possession claims (leg.hous.housing-management-possession)
- Development agreements (leg.prop.regeneration-and-development)
- Compulsory purchase (leg.prop.planning-law)
- Lending to property developers (leg.com.banking-and-finance)
- Surveyors' lease and property management advice (csl.prop.property-estate-management)
- Property agency and valuations (csl.prop.property-agency, csl.prop.property-valuation-advice)
- Commercial rent arrears recovery by enforcement agents (leg.enf.council-tax-business-rates-enforcement-agents)