Jonathan Miller is an Adjunct Associate Professor and President and CEO of Miller Samuel Inc., a real estate appraisal and consulting firm he co-founded in 1986. Miller Samuel provides appraisal and consulting services on as much as $5 billion worth of property per year in the New York City metropolitan area. He is also co-founder of Miller Cicero, LLC, a commercial real estate valuation firm. Jonathan is a real estate analyst and a state-certified real estate appraiser in New York and Connecticut, performing court testimony as an expert witness in various local, state, and federal courts across the U.S. He holds the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE) and Certified Relocation Professional (CRP) designations. He is an Appraiser “A” Member of the Real Estate Board of New York and the former President of RAC, a national organization of appraisers who specialize in providing valuation solutions for complex residential properties.
Mr. Miller is the author of a series of market reports for Douglas Elliman Real Estate considered the “report of record” covering the New York City metropolitan area, Boston, South Florida, Los Angeles, and Aspen. These reports are relied on by the media, financial institutions and government agencies, including the Federal Reserve, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the NYC Office of Management and Budget, the New York State Budget Division Economic Advisory Board, and others. He co-authored a research paper for NYU School of Law and the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy titled The Condominium v. Cooperative Puzzle: An Empirical Analysis of Housing in New York City, published in 2007 by the Journal of Legal Studies at the University of Chicago. He developed pending home sale indices for the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland metro areas on behalf of MRIS, one of the largest multiple listing systems in the U.S.
Mr. Miller serves on the New York City Mayor’s Economic Advisory Panel representing the residential real estate sector and participated in studies with institutions including New York University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Baruch College, and Urban Land Institute. He teaches market analysis in the Master of Science in Real Estate Development (MSRED) Program at Columbia University. He is a well-regarded real estate commentator, covering U.S. and regional housing issues in print, online, television, and radio including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, AP, CNBC, CNN, ABC, and others.