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SRA-regulated solicitors in Darlington: 15 firms reporting residential property
20 authorised firms with a practising office in the Darlington district on 3 November 2026, from the SRA's own data feed. Conveyancing firms first, ordered by distance from the centre of the district's offices; every one must publish its prices under the SRA Transparency Rules.
On 3 November 2026 the SRA register listed 20 authorised firms with a practising office in Darlington, operating 22 offices between them. 15 firms report residential property work in the most recent annual return, 19 list a website and 14 have more than one practising office. By authorisation type the district splits into 15 recognised body, 4 licensed body and 1 recognised sole practice.
The longest-standing authorisation in the district dates from November 2011 and the most recent from June 2026; 1 firm was authorised in the twelve months before the snapshot. 13 of the 20 firms carry a company registration number that matched a Companies House record. The most commonly reported areas of law here are residential property (15), family (15), wills and trusts (13), probate (13) and litigation (12).
Every one of the 15 firms reporting residential property work is required by the SRA Transparency Rules to publish its conveyancing prices on its website, or to supply them on request where it has none. 15 of them list a website in the register, and this site has located a published price page for 1. For context, the national purchase legal fee on this site averages £1,575 plus VAT (range £1,200 to £2,500).
National purchase legal fee: £1,575 average, range £1,200 to £2,500 plus VAT, before disbursements. See the conveyancing fee guide and calculator.
Firms reporting residential property work in Darlington
20 of 20 firms plotted at their Darlington office, 15 of them reporting residential property. Hover a row to find it on the map.
pinned on the office postcode postcode did not resolve, so the pin marks the area and not the door
Outline: Darlington district outline (ONS E06000005). On the still map, offices sharing a point are drawn once; the interactive map plots every one and groups them as you zoom out.
Map tiles: OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap contributors. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
| Firm | Office in Darlington | From centre | Authorised | Also reported | Prices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clark Willis Solicitors LTD t/a Clark Willis Solicitors | Darlington DL3 7LB Head office | 200 m | Recognised body since 2022 | FamilyWills and trustsProbate | Website |
| Meikles Solicitors LLP | Darlington DL3 7RX Branch | 200 m | Recognised body since 2015 | FamilyWills and trustsProbate | Website |
| Dma Law Limited | Darlington DL3 7AN Head office | 300 m | Recognised body since 2017 | Wills and trustsProbateFamily | Website |
| Latimer Hinks Solicitors Limited t/a Latimer Hinks | Darlington DL1 1NL Head office | 300 m | Recognised body since 2015 | ProbateWills and trusts | Website |
| Emg Solicitors Limited t/a Emg Solicitors | Darlington DL3 7EE Branch | 400 m | Licensed body since 2026 | ProbateWills and trustsFamily | Website |
| Milners t/a Milners T/A Close Thornton | Darlington DL1 5RH Branch | 400 m | Licensed body since 2017 | Wills and trustsProbateFamily | Website |
| Macks Solicitors Limited | Darlington DL1 1GB Branch | 500 m | Recognised body since 2011 | ProbateFamilyWills and trusts | Website |
| McGarry Law LLP t/a McGarry & Co | Darlington DL3 7EH Branch (+1 more here) | 500 m | Recognised body since 2022 | ProbateFamilyWills and trusts | Website |
| Newtons Solicitors Limited t/a Newtons Solicitors | Darlington DL3 7EH Branch | 500 m | Recognised body since 2016 | FamilyWills and trustsProbate | Website |
| Scotts Hall & Birtles Limited t/a Scotts Hall & Birtles Solicitors | Darlington DL3 7EH Branch | 500 m | Licensed body since 2022 | FamilyWills and trustsProbate | Website |
| Watson Woodhouse Limited | Darlington DL1 1GB Branch | 500 m | Recognised body since 2017 | Family | Website |
| Freeman Johnson t/a Freeman Johnson Solicitors | Darlington DL1 5SP Head office (+1 more here) | 600 m | Recognised body since 2011 | ProbateWills and trustsFamily | Website |
| Hewitts | Darlington DL1 1SZ Branch | 600 m | Recognised body since 2011 | FamilyWills and trusts | Website |
| Chadwick Lawrence LLP t/a Chadwick Lawrence Prices publishedfee table | Darlington DL1 1GL Branch | 1.0 km | Licensed body since 2024 | ProbateFamily | Read the price page |
| Blackett Hart & Pratt LLP t/a BHP Law | Darlington DL3 0PZ Head office | 2.1 km | Recognised body since 2011 | ProbateWills and trustsFamily | Website |
"From centre" is the straight-line distance from the mean position of all practising offices in the district. Rows without a link are firms whose SRA record is too sparse for a page of their own. "Also reported" shows probate, wills and family where the firm reported them. The "Prices published" badge means we read a conveyancing price page on that firm's own website and confirmed what it covers; a firm without one may still publish prices we did not find. Hover or tap a row to find that office on the map.
Other SRA-regulated firms with an office in Darlington (5, no residential property reported)
Published conveyancing fees near Darlington
5 firms within 25 km of the centre of the Darlington district publish, on their own websites, a freehold purchase fee that covers a £300,000 property. The SRA Transparency Rules require the figure; we read each page and show the fee as the firm printed it, with the page and the date. Ordered by that published fee, lowest first. A range or "from" price is placed by its lower figure and labelled; a firm with a band table shows the band its own table assigns to £300,000. 1 firm within the same distance had no published price when we read its websites. Other services, other prices and your own postcode are on the published-fee comparison.
| Firm | Published fee at £300,000 | Basis | Office | From centre | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksons Commercial & Private Law LLP SRA 517634 | £600 to £2000 + VAT | range · Residential conveyancing - freehold purchase, estimate of the fees payable | Stockton-On-Tees | 15.5 km | jacksons.law, read 17 October 2026 |
| Elliott James Legal LTD SRA 812902 | £850.00 + VAT | band "£200,001 – £300,000" · Residential conveyancing - purchase, fixed scale fee by transaction value | Stockton-on-Tees | 16.7 km | elliottjameslegal.co.uk, read 7 October 2026 |
| McGarry Law LLP SRA 8000441 | £850 + VAT | band "£200,001 – £300,000" · Residential conveyancing - property purchase, legal fees by property value | Barnard Castle | 23.7 km | www.mbmcgarry.co.uk, read 19 October 2026 |
| Place Blair & Hatch SRA 224217 | £990 + VAT | band "£250k to £300k" · Freehold residential purchase - legal fees, by property value | Northallerton | 22.1 km | pbh-law.co.uk, read 16 October 2026 |
| Dma Law Limited SRA 635837 | £1,210 + VAT | band "£250,001 - £300,000" · Residential conveyancing (sale or purchase) - average fee charges by sale or purchase price | Darlington | 300 m | dma-law.co.uk, read 19 October 2026 |
Prices the firms themselves publish under the SRA Transparency Rules, read from their websites on the dates shown and reproduced unchanged. They are not quotes, we have not asked the firms for quotes, and no firm paid to appear or to be placed higher. Assumes a registered freehold property, one buyer, no mortgage and no supplements unless the firm's label says otherwise; disbursements, Stamp Duty Land Tax and Land Registry fees are not included. "From centre" is the straight-line distance from the mean position of the district's practising offices to the firm's head office. See how the fees firms publish compare across England and Wales.
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Before you instruct a firm
- Check the firm on the SRA register (each firm page links to its entry) and confirm the SRA number on the firm's website matches.
- Read the published price page: it must show the total or a range, hourly rates or fixed fees, disbursements, VAT and timescales. See how to compare conveyancing quotes.
- A conveyancer does not need to be local; compare at least three written quotes, including an online conveyancer.
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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 3 November 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.