Deforest W. "Frosty" Smith,
President
CCIM, SIOR, GRI, CRB
dsmith@georgejsmith.com
 DeForest W. “Frosty” Smith, president of George J. Smith & Son
Commercial and Investment Real Estate, is regarded nationwide as a
leader in the field of real estate.
A graduate of Yale University with a degree in International
Economics, he is the only Realtor in the United States to
simultaneously hold the designations of Certified Commercial
Investment Member (CCIM), Society of Industrial and Office Realtors
(SIOR), Graduate Realtors Institute (GRI), and Certified Real Estate
Brokerage Manager (CRB).
With more than 40 years experience in the field, Frosty is an expert
and innovator when it comes to recognizing a good real estate
opportunity. He has been a senior instructor for the Realtors
National Marketing Institute for 30 years, spending four to six
weeks each year lecturing throughout the country on investments,
taxes, and commercial and industrial real estate. Frosty was also
appointed an Adjunct Professor of Real Estate at New York University
(NYU).
Listed in “Who’s-Who.” Frosty has served as president of the then –
2,000 member Greater New Haven Association of Realtors, and was
voted Realtor of the Year in 1985. He is a past president of both
the state Commercial Investment Division and the state CCIM Chapter.
He is a current director of the Milford Bank and the United States
Basketball League, and is past president of the Yale Club of New
Haven. He is also active in the Milford Club, the Milford Rotary
Club, and is the founder and past president of Drug Free Milford,
Inc., a nationally recognized anti-drug program. In 2004 he received
an award from the American Red Cross in recognition of donating more
than 100 pints of blood.
Frosty is the publisher of Only In Milford: An Illustrated History
and is a member of the Milford Congregational Church. He and his
wife make their home in Milford. They are the parents of three
daughters and the grandparents of eight.
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