Search the Gen H conveyancing panel by postcode
Gen H releases mortgage funds to a firm working with its instructions. 20 firms in the directory work with Gen H instructions. Search by postcode to see which cover your area, nearest first.
Searching costs nothing. Legal fees are agreed with the firm you instruct, and Gen H may apply its own administration charges, which sit outside any legal fee.
- Firms in the directory
- 20 working with Gen H
- Searches, last 30 days
- 40
- Most-searched rank
- 44 of 138 lenders
- Searched most from
- West Midlands
- Panel type
- conveyancing panel
- Jurisdiction
- England & Wales
- Handbook
- UK Finance · Part 2
Directory figures are counted from the LenderPanel listings that carry Gen H instructions, and search demand is counted from postcode searches recorded there. Both describe the directory rather than Gen H’s own approved panel, which is larger.
How the Gen H postcode search decides what to show you
This is a panel search rather than a local directory. Every firm shown works with Gen H instructions, which is a narrower and more useful set than the conveyancers nearest to you.
West Midlands
33%17 of the searches for Gen H that could be placed in a region came from West Midlands.
London
29%15 of the searches for Gen H that could be placed in a region came from London.
South West
12%6 of the searches for Gen H that could be placed in a region came from South West.
North West
8%4 of the searches for Gen H that could be placed in a region came from North West.
South East
8%4 of the searches for Gen H that could be placed in a region came from South East.
Across every lender searched on the directory in the last ninety days, Gen H sits at number 44 of 138. Rank is a measure of how often people look for a lender, not of how well its panel firms perform, and the two are worth keeping apart.
Narrowing to the panel
Everything starts from the lender. Firms that do not work with Gen H instructions are removed before anything else is considered, which is why this returns a shorter list than a search for local solicitors would.
Ordering by proximity
What remains is sorted by how far each office is from the postcode entered. Proximity decides the order and nothing else does: no firm pays for a higher position, and the ranking carries no judgement about quality.
Leaving firms out
A firm that has paused new instructions is withheld rather than shown as unavailable, because a listing somebody cannot act on wastes a telephone call. Regulatory details are printed against each firm so they can be checked independently.
Figures come from searches recorded on the LenderPanel directory since June 2026, last read in August 2026. They count searches rather than transactions, and a search is a person looking rather than a mortgage completing. Regional shares are calculated over the searches whose postcode area could be placed in a region, which is not quite all of them.
How to compare quotes from Gen H panel solicitors
Before comparing what two firms charge to act on a Gen H mortgage, it helps to know which parts of the total either of them controls. Some of it is the firm's fee for its work. The rest is money passing through.
What the firm sets
The fee for doing the legal work
- Reading the title, raising and answering enquiries, reporting to you and certifying the title to Gen H, and running the completion.
- Priced by the firm, which is why quotes differ, and the only line where shopping around changes what you pay.
What passes through
Costs the firm collects and forwards
- Search fees set by the local authority, Land Registry charges set by statute, and bank transfer costs set by the bank.
- Identical whoever acts for you. A firm cannot discount these, and a quote showing them as lower is usually showing fewer of them.
Ask which searches are included. That single answer explains most of the gap between two quotes.
Panel firms are designed to give a fixed-fee quote before you instruct them, so the legal fee is normally settled at the start rather than at the end. Ask what would change it: a leasehold title, a gifted deposit or a help-to-buy repayment each add work, and it is better to hear that now than on a revised bill.
See the firms covering your postcodePart 1, Part 2, and Gen H's own answers
One document sets out what a conveyancer has to do before Gen H releases the money, and it is written in two halves: an industry-wide part and a part the lender writes itself. Almost every surprising request on a mortgage file traces back to one of them.
Part 1
The industry-wide half
- Written once and applied to every lender in the scheme, which is why a conveyancer can act on a first matter for a lender they have never dealt with.
- It sets the investigation a firm has to carry out and the terms of the certificate of title it signs at the end of it.
- Amendments are consulted on and published, so a firm can see one coming.
Part 1 is the reason panel work is comparable between lenders at all.
Part 2
Where Gen H answers for itself
- Every question Part 1 leaves to the lender is answered here, in Gen H's own words: indemnity policies, new-build warranties, occupiers, retentions and the rest.
- It can be amended at any time and without notice, which is the whole reason a firm checks it per matter rather than per year.
- It is also where two lenders on the same transaction can want different things.
Nothing on this site reproduces a Part 2 answer. Read the current version before acting on any description of one.
Monitoring Part 2 for changes is what this site is for, so the monitoring record itself belongs on the page. This is Gen H's.
Part 2 changes have been recorded for Gen H in every year since 2021. A run that reaches the present is the case for reading the current version rather than working from the last matter, and it is the reason this site monitors Part 2 instead of reprinting it.
Counting the amendments rather than the years: Gen H has made 128 changes to Part 2 sections since 2017, 2 of them in 2026. One amendment can touch several sections, so this counts section changes rather than distinct sections, and revisions that moved nothing but the document’s own date are left out.
Counted from the Part 2 change record supplied by Lexsure Limited on 3 August 2026, which holds the years a lender’s Part 2 was amended rather than what any amendment said. 2026 is a part year, because the extract was taken partway through it. A lender that revises Part 2 often is not a worse lender than one that leaves it alone: what these figures describe is how far a conveyancer can rely on what applied last time, which is why the current version is the one to check.
This site says which Part 2 question holds a lender-specific answer rather than reprinting the answer. A stale copy of a requirement, on a page someone acts on, is worse than no copy.
What to ask before instructing a Gen H panel solicitor
There are three questions worth asking any firm before instructing it on a Gen H mortgage, and none of them takes long to answer. What they establish is whether the firm can act for the lender as well as for you.
Ask the firm directly
Ask whether they are currently able to act for Gen H on your type of transaction. The type matters: a firm can be approved for a standard purchase and not for a shared-ownership or buy-to-let one.
Ask the lender
Gen H holds the definitive list. A directory, this one included, shows a selection of firms working with a lender's instructions rather than the lender's full approved panel.
Ask what happens if the answer changes
If a firm comes off the panel mid-transaction, the lender normally instructs its own solicitor separately and the borrower is usually asked to cover both. Worth knowing the position before it arises.
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