Today's Conveyancer: The News Publication for Conveyancing and Property Professionals
Today's Conveyancer is an online news publication serving conveyancers and property professionals in the United Kingdom. Published at todaysconveyancer.co.uk and based in Birkenhead, England, it has reported on the residential property legal sector since 2010 — covering the law firms, licensed conveyancers, regulators, lenders, search providers and technology companies whose work moves millions of home buyers and sellers from offer to completion each year. The publication describes itself, in its own standing footer, as founded in 2010 and as the leading news publication for conveyancers and property professionals.
Conveyancing is a specialist world with its own pressures — transaction volumes that rise and fall with the housing market, fraud and money-laundering risks, professional indemnity costs, regulatory change and an ongoing debate about how to reform home buying and selling. Today's Conveyancer exists to chronicle that world daily, for the people who work in it, in the language they use themselves.
Overview
Today's Conveyancer is a business-to-business trade title. Its readers are not home movers looking for a lawyer, but the practitioners themselves: solicitors and licensed conveyancers, practice managers and partners, compliance officers, and the suppliers who sell services into the sector. Its daily output mixes breaking sector news with analysis, opinion columns from practitioners, interviews, podcast episodes and practical guidance on running a conveyancing practice.
The publication is part of a small stable of legal-sector titles owned by Solve Legal, a marketing business specialising in the legal sector, which also publishes Today's Wills and Probate for private client professionals. Together the titles give their owner a daily presence in two of the most active areas of high-street and regional legal practice.
History and Founding
Today's Conveyancer was founded in 2010, a period when the conveyancing market was still reshaping itself after the financial crisis and the collapse in transaction volumes that followed it. The sector was consolidating, new entrants and alternative business structures were emerging under the Legal Services Act reforms, and technology — online case tracking, digital searches, electronic identity checks — was beginning to change how firms handled files. A dedicated daily news source gave practitioners a way to keep track of those shifts in one place.
The publication's founder was Chris Harris, whose role is recorded in the title's own coverage; the team marked his wedding in its pages in 2020, referring to him as the founder of Today's Conveyancer. Under Solve Legal's ownership the title grew from a news site into a broader platform that now includes a podcast, events coverage, awards coverage and sponsored content partnerships, while retaining daily news as its core product.
Ownership and Business Model
Today's Conveyancer is owned by Solve Legal, described in its own announcements as the owners of Today's Conveyancer and Today's Wills and Probate. Solve Legal is a legal-sector marketing specialist: it offers law firms bespoke website design, specialist copywriting, targeted email campaigns and public relations, drawing on a team whose experience ranges from operationally running and growing law practices to working in marketing agencies. Karen Babington has been named as managing director of Solve Legal in the publication's coverage of the business.
That ownership shapes the business model. Like most trade publications, Today's Conveyancer carries advertising and clearly labelled sponsored and submitted content — articles submitted by advertisers are marked as such, with a note that the views expressed are those of the submitter. But the title is also a shop window and a community platform for its owner's wider services: the audience it convenes every day is precisely the audience Solve Legal sells marketing services to. The model is therefore a blend of media and agency, common in modern specialist publishing.
Coverage and Content
Daily news is the backbone: firm launches, mergers and closures; regulatory announcements from bodies overseeing the profession; disciplinary outcomes, including Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal cases involving conveyancers; lender and panel developments; and market data on transaction volumes and house prices. Stories in its archive range from anti-money-laundering failings resulting in a solicitor's suspension to new consumer websites intended to help people find the right lawyer, each reported with a conveyancing audience in mind.
Alongside news sits a substantial body of practitioner commentary. Regular columns and guest pieces tackle the recurring frustrations of the job — chains, enquiries, delays, leasehold reform, upfront information and the home buying and selling reform agenda. A recurring theme in recent years has been technology: diaries and essays from practitioners on why legal technology matters to conveyancing, how artificial intelligence might change document handling and data retrieval, and how firms can survive and thrive as modern practices, using data to set fees and manage conversion rates. The Today's Conveyancer Podcast extends that commentary into audio, with guests from across the sector discussing practice, fees, technology and wellbeing.
Audience and Reach
The audience is deliberately narrow and professional. Readers come to the site because conveyancing is their job, which makes the title valuable to advertisers and sponsors selling case management systems, searches, insurance, referral services and training. Editorial content assumes professional knowledge: it discusses professional indemnity insurance markets, anti-money-laundering compliance and disciplinary processes without pausing to explain them for lay readers.
That focus also makes the publication a forum for the profession's internal debates. Comment threads and opinion pieces show practitioners arguing constructively about reform proposals — for example, practitioner-led collectives aiming to solve conveyancing challenges one issue at a time — and about the role of government intervention in providing upfront information in transactions. For suppliers, regulators and policymakers who want to know what conveyancers actually think, the site functions as a daily barometer.
Editorial Voice
The editorial voice is collegial and practice-minded. News is reported straight, but the title's character comes through in its opinion and features output, where serving practitioners write in the first person about the realities of the work: protecting clients against future problems, giving informed advice under time pressure, and coping with a process whose frustrations are well known to everyone in the sector. The tone is supportive of the profession while remaining open to criticism of it — pieces regularly argue that the profession itself is best placed to fix problems such as inconsistent approaches to enquiries, provided initiatives remain collaborative, independent and grounded in real-world practice.
Celebration sits alongside scrutiny. The publication marks community moments — congratulating its founder on his wedding, championing award winners and new ventures — in a way that reflects its position as an insider title written for a relatively small, interconnected professional community.
Digital Presence
Today's Conveyancer is an online-only publication, centred on its website and supported by email and social distribution and its podcast. Articles follow a consistent format, carrying the publication's contact details for news leads — a press email address and telephone number are published on its stories, inviting firms and sector bodies to submit news. That openness is part of the trade-press model: much of the raw material of sector news arrives as announcements from firms, suppliers and regulators, which the editorial team selects, verifies and contextualises.
The site's archive, stretching back across more than a decade and a half of daily publishing, is itself a record of the sector's evolution — from post-crash consolidation, through the stamp duty holiday surges of the pandemic period, to today's debates about artificial intelligence, upfront information and home buying reform.
Notable People
Chris Harris, the publication's founder, is the name most closely associated with its creation. On the ownership side, Karen Babington, managing director of Solve Legal, has been the public voice of the parent business in its announcements, describing a team whose combined experience spans running law practices and working in marketing agencies. The bylines and podcast microphones feature a rotating cast of sector figures — founders of conveyancing firms, legal technology advocates and practice consultants — whose guest contributions form a large part of the title's features output. Regular diarists, including the author of the Diary of a Cyber Conveyancer series, give the site recurring practitioner voices on technology and risk.
Place in the Legal Trade Press
British legal publishing is dominated by titles serving solicitors generally or the commercial City market. Today's Conveyancer occupies a different niche: a single practice area, served daily, by a publisher embedded in that practice area's commercial ecosystem. Its sister title, Today's Wills and Probate, applies the same formula to private client work, and the two share an owner, a style and a readership of predominantly high-street and regional practitioners. For conveyancers — who can feel overlooked by a legal press focused on larger firms — the title provides recognition that their specialism has its own news agenda, its own debates and its own community.
Recent Developments
In recent coverage the publication has focused heavily on the themes reshaping conveyancing practice: the use of artificial intelligence and large language models to retrieve and organise matter data; data-driven fee setting, with firms using conversion analysis to raise fees sustainably; the campaign for upfront information in home buying and selling and the government support behind it; and practitioner-led improvement collectives seeking to fix the process from within. Its podcast and long-form interviews give those themes a human voice, profiling how individual firms are adapting. Throughout, the standing description remains unchanged — founded in 2010, and presenting itself as the leading news publication for conveyancers and property professionals — a claim its daily output continues to be judged against by the profession it serves.
