Edward Smith
ePro, AHWD

CREI, ITI, CIC, GREEN, MICP, CNS

CIREC Program Developer

Ed has over 45 years’ of experience in Commercial and Investment Real Estate   Brokerage, Leasing, Sales, and Management. For many years he headed his own brokerage firm on Long Island, handing transactions throughout the New  York Metropolitan Area. Later he went on to serve as a Real Estate consultant to the trade and spent eleven years as a Regional Director for Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT before retiring to private practice.

Over the last 19 years, Ed has personally trained over 13,500 agents on how to excel in the competitive field of commercial and investment real estate brokerage. To date, he has written over a dozen continuing education manuals and regularly teaches for various Real Estate Boards, private companies, and as an Adjunct Professor at Westchester Community College. Independent of his educational manuals, he has written and published ten other books.

Ed’s dedicated practice of commercial real estate is evident in his extensive industry associations and appointments. He is a former Director of both The Real Estate Practitioners Institute at Long Island University and The Commercial Industrial Brokers Society (CIBS). He is a Director and past President of NYSCAR, both NY State and NYC/LI chapters, the Long Island Commercial Network, and LIBOR.