Estate agency Michael Poole has appointed two sales negotiators to its Teesside offices.

JOANNE ELDERFIELD will work from the Eston office, having left her position at Drummonds Estate Agents, where she worked for six-and-a-half years.

LAVINIA DURRANT has been taken on for the firm's Middlesbrough office. She took an 18-month break from her career in estate agency after working for Thirlwells Estate Agency for five years.