Polland and The Friedman Team Attend International Luxury Alliance Event

Diane Polland, Rudi Friedman and Jason Friedman, who are all Coldwell Banker Previews International® Property Specialists affiliated with the Great Neck regional office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage on Long Island and Queens, N.Y., recently attended the International Luxury Alliance Network event held at the Peninsula Hotel in New York City. The event was hosted by NRT LLC. NRT, the nation’s largest residential real estate brokerage company, is the parent company of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage on Long Island and Queens, N.Y.

Representing the Long Island marketplace, Polland and the Friedman Team were joined by fellow luxury marketing experts from North America and Europe affiliated with Coldwell Banker and New York’s premier luxury sales professionals from The Corcoran Group, the leading residential real estate brokerage company headquartered in New York City. In total, the group represents more than $2.5 billion in sales volume in luxury real estate sales and ranks within the top 1 percent of Coldwell Banker and Corcoran agents worldwide.

“Diane, Rudi, Jason and the real estate professionals who were invited to this exclusive event, have distinguished themselves in affluent markets around the globe,” said Bruce Zipf, president and CEO of NRT LLC. “This gathering was an opportunity for them to strengthen their relationships and collectively harness their competitive edge, which ultimately advantageously benefits their clients who rely on them to market their estates domestically and internationally.”

As part of the three-day networking event, Polland and the Friedman Team and their colleagues participated in strategic business sessions launched by Zipf. Ginette Wright, vice president of luxury marketing for NRT, hosted panel discussions that provided insight into the wealthiest markets around the world.

The event included a tour of premiere New York luxury development properties led by Pamela Liebman, Corcoran president and CEO and local co-host of the event. The new development properties on the tour included 30 Park Place Four Seasons Private Residences, the highest residential tower in Downtown Manhattan, 70 Vestry, the collection of Tribeca waterfront homes designed by Robert A.M. Stern with unobstructed views of the Hudson River and 53 West 53rd Street, the mid-town residential tower which rises above the Museum of Modern Art and Central Park.

The tour of exceptional New York luxury residences concluded with a presentation on Hudson Yards, the largest private real estate development in the history of the U.S. and a tour of 15 Hudson Yards, the first residential property of Hudson Yards to enter the market. That evening, as well as the other evenings of the three-day summit, closed with a cocktail reception and VIP dinner party.

The assembly of real estate industry luminaries included, in addition to Pamela Liebman of The Corcoran Group, Laurent Demeure, president and CEO of Coldwell Banker France and Monaco, and real estate icons affiliated with Coldwell Banker and The Corcoran Group representing such key markets as Los Angeles and Malibu, C.A., Aspen, C.O. Greenwich, C.T., Miami and Palm Beach, FL, New York City, the Hamptons, Westchester County, N.Y. and more.

About Diane Polland

Polland has consistently distinguished herself among the top Coldwell Banker agents worldwide. During the past 25 years, Polland has represented some of the most noteworthy properties in the luxury market using a global approach to make connections between her distinguished sellers and international buyers. She is a true real estate professional and highly respected by colleagues for her expertise in the local and luxury markets.

In recent years, Polland has sold $350M in luxury waterfront real estate in Kings Point, Sands Point, Roslyn and across the Gold Coast on the north shore of Long Island. In 2012, one of her estate sales was among the top three of all Coldwell Banker Previews International sales.

A consistent award-winning salesperson, Polland has been named to the Coldwell Banker Society of Excellence and Coldwell Banker International President's Elite, awarded to associates who rank in the top 1% and 2% of the agents worldwide, respectively, and has also been the #1 companywide agent on Long Island and Queens. Nationally, she has been ranked #128 nationally on the Wall Street Journal / REAL Trends 2013 Top 1,000 list of agents across the United States. Prior to beginning her successful career in commercial and residential real estate, she received an MBA from Fordham University and a master’s degree in psychology from NYU.

About The Friedman Team

Since establishing The Friedman Team in 2013, Rudi and Jason Friedman have sold more than $300M in residential real estate. The Friedman Team has amassed an outstanding resume which includes making the largest residential sale in the history of Nassau County, with the closing of Inisfada, the St. Ignatius Retreat in North Hills in 2013, as well as the sale of the Easton Estate in Muttontown, which was the highest priced residential transaction in Nassau County in 2015. They have also sold the Allen Estate in Sands Point and two homes on the former estate of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in Lattingtown.

Among their many accolades, The Friedman Team was the recipient of the 2015 Long Island Business News Real Estate & Development Award for “Residential Real Estate Team of the Year in Nassau County,” and in 2014 they were ranked the “Top 20 Agents in New York” and the “Top 100 Agents in the United States” by REAL Trends, becoming the first Nassau-County-based team to rank at this high level.

The Friedman Team primarily specializes in the marketing of exceptional luxury properties and high-end communities on Long Island. Rudi Friedman attended McGill University and Jason Friedman received his business degree with a dual concentration in marketing and industrial relations from McGill University and his MBA in finance at Hofstra University.

For information about buying or selling a home or to locate your local Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office or view listings on Long Island and Queens, visit www.ColdwellBankerHomes.com. To contact Polland or The Friedman Team, call the Great Neck regional office, located at 167 Middle Neck Road, at 516-482-8400.

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, a leading residential real estate brokerage company in Long Island and Queens, NY, operates 15 offices with more than 700 affiliated sales associates serving the communities of Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage is part of NRT LLC, the nation's largest residential real estate brokerage company. For more information, please visit www.ColdwellBankerHomes.com.

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Photos Attached:

ILA Diane Polland Bruce Zipf Pam Liebman (Photo credit: Richard Lewin) – Pictured left to right, Diane Polland, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage sales associate affiliated with Great Neck office; Bruce Zipf, President & CEO, NRT LLC; and, Pam Liebman, President & CEO, The Corcoran Group

ILA The Friedman Team (Photo credit: Jason Friedman) – Pictured left to right, Jason Friedman and Rudi Friedman of The Friedman Team, affiliated sales associates with the Great Neck regional office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage on Long Island and Queens, NY