A new conveyancing firm has announced its launch into the UK residential property market.
Based in Central London and regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, Farringdon is opening its doors to partners to refer clients selling residential properties anywhere in the UK. JLL and Streets Ahead are confirmed among the firm’s first sales agency partners.
Farringdon says it will utilise AI to build workflows that supplement human expertise, highlighting gaps, inconsistencies or risks before they become blockers further down the line.
Alongside this, Farringdon is experimenting with real-time updates through familiar communication channels such as WhatsApp. While every transaction is overseen by an experienced named solicitor, many routine tasks will be handled instantly through these channels using agentic workflows.
Farringdon is established and led by Ed Boulle, co-founder of Orbital, a legal AI scale-up business whose technology enable UK law firms to complete 200,000 property transactions annually. One in 10 UK residential property transactions are now completed by conveyancers using Orbital’s AI software.
Sue Bence is Farringdon’s COO, bringing over two decades’ experience in partner, COO and board-level roles, including three years as COO of Simply Conveyancing.
Sarah Debney joins Farringdon as head of legal practice. A licensed conveyancer with almost forty years’ residential conveyancing experience, Sarah was formerly head of legal practice at Simply Conveyancing.
Farringdon’s model is built on the firm’s long-term vision to ‘build and share’. The firm will develop and test AI-native workflows in live transactions and then share its technology with the residential conveyancing firms within Orbital’s customer network.
Farringdon is currently building referral partnerships with early adopters and will take instructions from May 2026.
Farringdon’s managing director, Ed Boulle, commented: "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.
"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."
Robert Aveling, deputy head of residential agency and 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, added: “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.”
