Abels

SRA number

45904

Authorisation

Recognised body

Authorised since

1 November 2011

Organisation type

Recognised body, authorised

Constitution

Partnership

Practising offices

1

Head office

Southampton SO15 2BG

Areas of law reported to the SRA

8: Wills and trusts, Probate, Social Welfare, Children, Commercial property, Residential property, Litigation, Landlord and tenant

Website (SRA record)

abels-solicitors.co.uk

Publishes conveyancing prices

Not found by our check of the website on 28 August 2026

Head office phone

023 8022 0317

SRA firms in Southampton

56 (26 residential property)

Abels is a recognised body authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority since November 2011 and recorded under SRA number 45904. The SRA record lists 1 practising office: the head office at Cumberland House, Southampton, SO15 2BG. Its constitution is recorded as partnership.

In its most recent annual return the firm told the SRA it delivered work in 8 areas of law: Wills and trusts, Probate, Social Welfare, Children, Commercial property, Residential property, Litigation and Landlord and tenant. Because residential property is among them, the SRA Transparency Rules require the firm to publish its conveyancing prices on its own website; the check of abels-solicitors.co.uk on 28 August 2026 did not find a published conveyancing price page, so ask the firm for the figures the rules require.

The head office postcode SO15 2BG falls within Southampton (South East), where the SRA register lists 56 authorised firms with a practising office, 26 of them reporting residential property work. The nearest other SRA-regulated firms by straight-line distance from the head office are Paris Smith LLP (200 m, Southampton), Idiculla Solicitors (200 m, Southampton), Paris Smith Trust Corporation Limited (200 m, Southampton), Lawdit Solicitors Limited (200 m, Southampton) and Footner & Ewing LLP (300 m, Southampton). 4 of those 5 report residential property work.

The SRA records the firm's constitution as partnership, a structure with no Companies House registration, so there is no company record to cross-reference; the SRA authorisation record is the only public register entry for the firm.

For a home purchase in Southampton, this site's verified conveyancing legal fee range is £800 to £2,100 plus VAT, before disbursements such as searches and the Land Registry fee. Read the firm's published prices against that band rather than the headline figure alone.

Offices on the SRA record

Areas of law reported to the SRA

Self-reported by the firm in its most recent annual return to the SRA ("the areas of law that the law firm has told us they delivered"). A lagging description of past work, not a live service list, a specialism claim or a quality mark; it may be up to a year old and is blank for newly authorised firms.