Brandon Polakoff is a Senior Director on the Tri-State Investment Sales group of Avison Young’s New York City office.

Previously, Brandon was an Associate Director in the Investment Sales Group at Cushman & Wakefield in New York. He has been involved in sales with an aggregate value of over $3 billion.

In 2018, Brandon was named one of Commercial Observer’s 30 Under 30 Top Leasing and Sales Professionals and was a recipient of Connect Media’s Next Generation Award. In 2019, he was named one of New York Real Estate Journal’s Ones to Watch and Real Estate Weekly’s Rising Stars. In 2020, he was named one of Crain's New York Rising Stars in Real Estate. 

Since inception in 2018, Brandon has been the top producer for Avison Young Tri-State Investment Sales. Additionally, in 2019, Brandon was among the 30 top producers across all service lines worldwide for Avison Young (~5,000 employees across 100+ countries).

Brandon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Trinity College and participated in the Business Bridge Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2010. At Trinity, Brandon was a member of the varsity men's lacrosse team and was named to the 2012 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) All-Academic Team and 2012 NESCAC All-Sportsmanship Team. He currently serves as an academic tutor for Harlem Lacrosse, a school-based non-profit organization that provides at-risk youth with academic support, mentoring, leadership training, college readiness, career exploration, admissions counseling and lacrosse instruction.

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