Farringdon has launched as a new residential conveyancing firm, with JLL and Streets Ahead among its first agency partners.

The Central London firm, which is regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, will work with agency partners referring clients selling residential properties across the UK.

Farringdon said its model has been built around AI-led workflows intended to improve consistency, communication and transaction speed for sellers, buyers and agents.

The firm is led by Ed Boulle, managing director and co-founder of Orbital, a legal AI business whose technology is used by UK law firms on residential property transactions.

Farringdon said sellers will be supported by AI to complete key documentation accurately at the start of a transaction, with tools designed to identify gaps, inconsistencies or risks before they become obstacles later in the process.

Its AI agents will also analyse information to anticipate enquiries likely to be raised by a buyer’s conveyancer, giving clients and agents earlier sight of potential issues.

The firm is also testing real-time updates through channels such as WhatsApp, with each transaction overseen by an experienced named solicitor.

Boulle said: “Moving home should be one of life’s best moments, but the process of making it happen can be extraordinarily stressful and unpleasant. Poor visibility, communication blackspots and bottlenecked information flows – all often created by the conveyancer’s lack of bandwidth – are problems buyers and sellers have come to expect as part and parcel of the process.

“At Farringdon, we’re throwing out those assumptions. We’ve designed our firm from the ground up around AI to prove that it is possible to deliver the same high quality experience consistently, regardless of the variables at play.

“Our AI-led approach isn’t designed with only buyers and sellers in mind, but for the agents and advisers working with them too. No agent or adviser wants to be left in the dark or for their client to reflect on their property transaction with dissatisfaction; it’s bad for business.”

Robert Aveling, deputy head of residential agency & development at JLL, said: “A barrier for all agents to build business and win more sales is the amount of time and effort it takes to stay on top of current transactions and navigate communications between clients and conveyancers working on both sides of a deal.

“We’re looking forward to seeing how Farringdon can exploit AI efficiencies to deliver a consistent higher standard of service irrespective of their caseload or transaction complexity.”

Scott Ayliffe, owner of Streets Ahead Estate Agency Group, said: “No agent wants to be caught off guard by a client who does not understand the advice they have been given by their conveyancer. Agents want to be kept in the loop, but all too often they are the last to know.

“Chasing updates takes time away from winning new business. What agents need is a reliable, consistent service, and Farringdon has both the technology and the legal expertise to deliver something genuinely exciting in this space.

“It is rare to find a firm that is equally built on legal knowledge and AI engineering.”

EXPERIENCED TEAM

Farringdon’s senior team includes Sue Bence as COO. Bence has more than two decades’ experience in partner, COO and board-level roles, including three years as COO of Simply Conveyancing.

Sarah Debney has joined as head of legal practice. Debney is a licensed conveyancer with almost 40 years’ residential conveyancing experience and was formerly head of legal practice at Simply Conveyancing.

Farringdon said its longer-term plan is to develop and test AI-native workflows in live transactions before sharing the technology with residential conveyancing firms in Orbital’s customer network.

Boulle added: “The logic to ‘build and share’ is straightforward: progress on one side of a transaction only gets you so far when the other side is facing bandwidth issues.

“We’re building Farringdon not only to be a commercial success, but a catalyst for wider industry transformation.”

Farringdon is building referral partnerships with early adopters and will take instructions from May 2026.