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Jonathan D. Miller

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A marketing communication strategist who turned to real estate analysis, Jonathan D. Miller is a foremost interpreter of 21st citistate futures – cities and suburbs alike – seen through the lens of lifestyles and market realities. For more than 20 years (1992-2013), Miller authored Emerging Trends in Real Estate, the leading commercial real estate industry outlook report, published annually by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He has lectures frequently on trends in real estate, including the future of America's major 24-hour urban centers and sprawling suburbs. He also has been author of ULI’s annual forecasts on infrastructure and its What’s Next? series of forecasts. On a weekly basis, he writes the Trendczar blog for GlobeStreet.com, the real estate news website. Outside his published forecasting work, Miller is a prominent communications/institutional investor-marketing strategist and partner in Miller Ryan LLC, helping corporate clients develop and execute branding and communications programs. He led the re-branding of GMAC Commercial Mortgage to Capmark Financial Group Inc. and he was part of the management team that helped build Equitable Real Estate Investment Management, Inc. (subsequently Lend Lease Real Estate Investments, Inc.) into the leading real estate advisor to pension funds and other real institutional investors. He joined the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. in 1981, moving to Equitable Real Estate in 1984 as head of Corporate/Marketing Communications. In the 1980's he managed relations for several of the country's most prominent real estate developments including New York's Trump Tower and the Equitable Center. Earlier in his career, Miller was a reporter for Gannett Newspapers. He is a member of the Citistates Group and a board member of NYC Outward Bound Schools and the Center for Employment Opportunities.

  • Playing on Unfamiliar Turf

    International | New York

    Playing on Unfamiliar Turf

    July 6, 2016

    I don't normally talk about particular deals, but the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel story is so trend worthy. First off, an offshore institutional buyer…

  • Costs Mount for Delaying Infrastructure Overhauls

    National

    Costs Mount for Delaying Infrastructure Overhauls

    June 10, 2016

    Both presumed Presidential nominees have decried the state of the nation's infrastructure and say they want to fix it. Donald Trump aptly characterizes…

  • The Late Innings

    International | National

    The Late Innings?

    May 16, 2016

    It's a problematic time where figuring out where markets are going becomes especially difficult. The economic recovery has been relatively weak,…

  • Viva Havana

    National | International

    Viva Havana

    March 30, 2016

    Do I have a value real estate proposition for you. Just go to Havana.

  • The Money Trail

    National

    The Money Trail

    March 16, 2016

    Market bifurcation is a recurring phenomenon of real estate cycles—there are always the haves and the have nots. It's typically most apparent in…

  • Revisiting the Era of Less

    National | New York

    Revisiting the Era of Less

    February 9, 2016

    I coined the term “Era of Less” about five years ago to describe the period the U.S. would be facing economically coming out of the Great Recession…

  • National

    Stock Market Signals

    January 14, 2016

    A CEO of a real estate investment management company wonders what's going on: "Should we be worried? Can you believe the outrageously high appraisals? It's all cap rate driven." The stock market has gyrated in a narrow range, but now trends decidedly lower. Analysts are worried that the market is overpriced as the world economy slides on the slick of well-deserved concern about China. …

  • National | New York | Not National

    Threat of Fear

    December 23, 2015

    A few days after the San Bernardino shootings I attended a Council of Foreign Relations luncheon headlined by William Perry, the former defense secretary under Bill Clinton. In the wake of the Paris attacks, he had a less than cheery assessment of the world's nuclear dangers that lost the appetites of most of us in attendance. In particular, for anyone living in New York or Washington DC he had a special warning, there is a…

  • National

    Web Shopping's Moment

    December 3, 2015

    This may be the defining year when the internet cements its place as the shopper preference over schlepping into stores, particularly at Christmas.  And it's pretty amazing when you think back only a decade or so ago when bricks and mortar retailers were confidently predicting only marginal inroads from online purchasing in the future. …

  • National

    High Tech Job Killing

    November 10, 2015

    Where will our next generation of jobs come from? The banking sector clearly is not a major growth industry—company staffing counts go sideways, average Wall Street bonuses slide, and retail operations shrink thanks to cash machines and smart phones. And who needs trading floors and as many day traders when transactions are programmed by computer algorithms?

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