About Us
Pollet Associates is a real property appraisal, valuation and land-use consultancy firm concentrating on the New York metropolitan market.
​Our services are tailored towards attorneys, with an eye toward legal support services regarding real property, whether litigation or contentious circumstances, estates, or other matters.
If you have any situation concerning any type of real estate/real property valuation needs, please feel free to reach out and contact us.
We thrive on complex and complicated valuation scenarios and look forward to delving into solving complex real property valuation situations.
Mr. Pollet also teaches continuing education for appraisers, CLE for attorneys, and continuing ed for real estate brokers and agents. If you have a question, reach out to Mr. Pollet; if he does not have an answer, he will find a supported answer for you.
Our Specializations
While we specialize in more complex and arcane areas of appraisals, including diminution of value (any type of ‘damaged’ properties), complicated properties (from the Empire State Building to specialty renowned venues), housing discrimination, tax cert/grievances, condemnation, obscure or arcane issues, ‘forensic reviews’ (for litigation but also collateral-support), IRS and estate taxation, religious institutions and others; we also conduct appraisals for more ‘commonplace’ situations.
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Our practice is geared towards attorney support so that attorneys can best represent their
client’s interests.
To that end, we have testified and been accepted in most courts, before the IRS, state and local governments and other venues. We have also been called upon to support We have earned our reputation for going above-and-beyond to deliver exceptionally supported and defensible results to our attorney/clients so that they, in turn, can produce positive results for their clients.
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Pollet Associates is proud to be a corporate sponsor of the Nassau County Bar Association, following Mr. Pollet’s long time service as a volunteer with the Bar’s We Care Fund.
Our History
Pollet Associates traces its origins to 1980 when company Principal, Leigh Pollet, began his career with one of the metropolitan New York regions preeminent real estate appraisers. Since then, Leigh has served as a corporate executive and Chief Appraiser for national and regional financial institutions, both ‘turning around’ underperforming divisions or starting subsidiaries that went on to outstanding financial and collateral protection success.
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Leigh’s last corporate position was with one of the nation’s largest banks, where he self- started an appraisal division working with a newly formed lending division. That division grew to exceed $2 billion/year in its first year; all of which collateral Mr. Pollet was ultimately responsible for. With the success of that division, he was given the added task to turn-around a second $2b/year appraisal division.
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In 2009, with the advent of the Home Valuation Code of Conduct then Dodd-Frank and then Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Mr. Pollet left the institution, re-acquired Pollet Assoc and, as an ‘expert’ on these issues, worked across the country to assist financial institutions, their corporate boards and leadership, to successfully meet changing federal requirements. He also turned Pollet Associates ‘around’ from a mortgage appraisal business into the real property and land use consultancy as Pollet Associates exists today.
Leigh Pollet
Founder & Land-Use Consultant
Pollet Associates traces its origins to 1980 when company Principal, Leigh Pollet, began his career with one of the metropolitan New York regions preeminent real estate appraisers. Since then, Leigh has served as a corporate executive and Chief Appraiser for national and regional financial institutions, both ‘turning around’ underperforming divisions or starting subsidiaries that went on to outstanding financial and collateral protection success.
Leigh’s last corporate position was with one of the nation’s largest banks, where he self-started an appraisal division working with a newly formed lending division. That division grew to exceed $2 billion/year in its first year; all of which collateral Mr. Pollet was ultimately responsible for. With the success of that division, he was given the added task to turn-around a second $2b/year appraisal division.
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In 2009, with the advent of the Home Valuation Code of Conduct then Dodd-Frank and then Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Mr. Pollet left the institution, re-acquired Pollet Assoc and, as an ‘expert’ on these issues, worked across the country to assist financial institutions, their corporate boards and leadership, to successfully meet changing federal requirements. He also turned Pollet Associates ‘around’ from a mortgage appraisal business into the real property and land use consultancy as Pollet Associates exists today.
Phone: 516.476.3185/ Ask for Leigh
Email: Appraze111@gmail.com