Edward S. Smith, CREI, ITI, CIC, RECS, is the Regional Director and Corporate Commercial Trainer for Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT operations on Long Island, New York and the Mid-Atlantic region. He is a NYS licensed Real Estate Broker, specializing in Commercial and Investment Real Estate, with over 35 years of brokerage experience. 
 

Mr. Smith is an Instructors Training Institute (ITI) graduate and has ten years experience teaching commercial real estate courses. He has authored four 7.5-hour continuing education courses: Commercial & Investment Real Estate: Concepts and Terms; Commercial Real Estate; Tools of the Trade; All About Leases; Real Estate Formulas and Calculations. He has also written The Commercial Classroom: Lessons in Commercial and Investment Real estate Brokerage and three textbooks: Commercial Real Estate: Listing Properties; Commercial Real Estate: Understanding Investments: Commercial Real Estate: Smart Marketing Practices.

He is Past President of the New York State Commercial Association of Realtors®, Past President of the Metro-Long Island Chapter of NYSCAR; Past President of the Long Island Commercial Network (LICN); and has served as a Director of the Long Island Board of Realtors®. He is also a former Officer and Director of the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society (CIBS).

Currently, a Director of the New York State Association of Realtors®, he also serves on many of their committees including: Chairman of the Commercial Issues Committee; Legislative Steering; Education Management and previously served as Statewide RPAC Chairman. He serves on the Boards of NYSCAR and LICN and he is a Director of the Real Estate Practitioners Institute at Long Island University.