Eleanor Storey

Associate in Commercial Property

Education:

Eleanor studied at Newcastle University for her Law degree, and the University of Law in Leeds for her Legal Practice Course. Eleanor worked at firm in Doncaster alongside her studies, before completing her training contract to qualify as a solicitor in January 2021. Upon qualification Eleanor specialised in property, doing a mix of commercial and residential work. Eleanor joined our Commercial Property team at Wake Smith in August 2022.

Main Areas of Work:

• Commercial Property sales, acquisitions and re-finances;
• Landlord and Tenant work- leases, surrenders, deed of variations, lease renewals;
• Deed of easement;
• Purchase of freehold reversion;
• Lease extensions;
• Transfers of Equity;
• Applications for adverse possession;
• Assents;
• Residential conveyancing- sales, purchases, re-mortgages.

What clients say about you:

"Eleanor Storey was my point of contact; excellent service, updates, communication. Couldn't recommend enough, a very high level of service was provided by Eleanor and I would certainly consider Wake Smith in future, as well as highly recommend to others. 10/10!"

"Eleanor Storey and Laura Saul are absolutely top class solicitors. They are both so trustworthy, efficient and knowledgeable in their field that it makes a very stressful transaction much less so. They can be completely relied upon to do their job and keep me informed at all times."- Quoted in The Legal 500, 2026

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