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SRA-regulated solicitors in St Albans: 18 firms reporting residential property
49 authorised firms with a practising office in the St Albans district on 15 September 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 15 September 2026 the SRA register listed 49 authorised firms with a practising office in St Albans, operating 54 offices between them. 18 firms report residential property work in the most recent annual return, 41 list a website and 21 have more than one practising office. By authorisation type the district splits into 32 recognised body, 11 licensed body and 6 recognised sole practice.
The longest-standing authorisation in the district dates from November 2011 and the most recent from June 2026; 2 firms were authorised in the twelve months before the snapshot. 35 of the 49 firms carry a company registration number that matched a Companies House record. The most commonly reported areas of law here are family (19), wills and trusts (19), residential property (18), litigation (17) and commercial property (16).
Every one of the 18 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. 17 of them list a website in the register, and this site has located a published price page for 3. 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 St Albans
49 of 49 firms plotted at their St Albans office, 18 of them reporting residential property. Hover a row to find it on the map.
pinned on the office postcode postcode did not resolve (1 here), so the pin marks the area and not the door
Outline: St Albans district outline (ONS E07000240). 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 St Albans | From centre | Authorised | Also reported | Prices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debenhams Ottaway LLP t/a Debenhams Ottaway | St. Albans AL1 3EW Head office | 1.5 km | Recognised body since 2012 | FamilyProbateWills and trusts | Website |
| Eric Coates | St. Albans AL1 3SA Head office | 1.7 km | Recognised sole practice since 2015 | none reported | on request |
| GT Stewart Limited t/a GT Stewart Solicitors & Advocates Prices publishedfee table | St. Albans AL3 4DG Branch | 1.8 km | Recognised body since 2016 | Family | Read the price page |
| SA Law LLP | St. Albans AL1 3UU Head office | 1.8 km | Licensed body since 2015 | Wills and trustsFamily | Website |
| Photiades Solicitors LTD t/a Photiades Solicitors | St. Albans AL1 1NG Head office | 2.1 km | Recognised body since 2012 | FamilyWills and trustsProbate | Website |
| Sherrards Solicitors LLP t/a Sherrards | St. Albans AL1 3RD Head office | 2.1 km | Recognised body since 2011 | Wills and trusts | Website |
| Bryan & Mercer LTD t/a Bryan and Mercer Solicitors | St. Albans AL1 1LJ Head office | 2.2 km | Recognised body since 2011 | Wills and trusts | Website |
| Abbey Law Limited t/a Abbey Law | St Albans AL1 4JS Head office | 2.3 km | Recognised body since 2019 | Wills and trustsFamilyProbate | Website |
| Poole Alcock LLP Prices published | St. Albans AL1 3TF Branch (+1 more here) | 2.4 km | Licensed body since 2020 | Wills and trustsFamilyProbate | Read the price page |
| Rise Legal (STB) Limited t/a Rise Legal | St. Albans AL1 3TF Head office | 2.4 km | Licensed body since 2018 | ProbateWills and trusts | Website |
| Taylor Walton LLP | St. Albans AL1 1HQ Branch (+1 more here) | 2.6 km | Recognised body since 2011 | Wills and trustsFamilyProbate | Website |
| Richardsons Solicitors | St. Albans AL3 6RS Head office | 3.3 km | Recognised sole practice since 2015 | Wills and trusts | Website |
| Labrums Solicitors LLP | St. Albans AL1 2HA Head office | 3.8 km | Recognised body since 2013 | Wills and trustsProbate | Website |
| Wright & Co | Harpenden AL5 2TL Head office | 5.3 km | Recognised sole practice since 2015 | Probate | Website |
| Wright Tamana-Sugden | Harpenden AL5 2TL Head office | 5.3 km | Recognised body since 2011 | none reported | Website |
| Neves Limited t/a Neves Solicitors | Harpenden AL5 2SL Branch | 5.6 km | Recognised body since 2025 | FamilyWills and trustsProbate | Website |
| Hedges Law Limited t/a Hedges Law Prices publishedfee table | Harpenden AL5 4US Branch | 6.2 km | Licensed body since 2016 | FamilyProbateWills and trusts | Read the price page |
| Paul Berg & Taylor | Harpenden AL5 3BL Head office | 6.4 km | Recognised body since 2011 | Probate | 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 St Albans (31, no residential property reported)
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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 15 September 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.