Principal
Jonathan J. Miller, CRP
Jonathan is a co-founder and President/CEO of Miller Samuel Inc. He is a certified general real estate appraiser in the state of New York and has been appraising residential and commercial properties for more than 20 years. Miller Samuel provided Manhattan property valuations of more than $5,000,000,000 in the past year. He is also a co-founder and managing principal of Miller Cicero, LLC, which provides commercial real estate valuation services in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx.
Jonathan has performed extensive assignments concerning mortgage origination, relocation, divorce, foreclosure, bankruptcy, asset valuation, share allocation, common area valuation, trust and estate matters and has been admitted as an expert witness in numerous city, state and federal courts.
Jonathan has been a frequent featured speaker at both local and national appraiser and real estate related conferences, industry panels and trade groups. He has served on advisory panels for the Employee Relocation Council concerning co-op, appraisal and technology issues, for Fannie Mae on co-op matters, is a member of the Mayor's Economic Advisory Panel for the New York City Office of Management and Budget and is a member of the New York City Council Finance Committee Economic Advisory Board.
He has participated in, or his statistics has been used within, research projects with a number of government agencies, consulting groups, and academic institutions, including New York University, Princeton University, Harvard University, Columbia University and Baruch College. His firm provides Manhattan market statistical content to New York Times Digital, the on-line entity of the New York Times Company. Jonathan has authored articles on valuation issues, techniques and market trends.
In 2005, Jonathan built and launched two widely read real estate blogs: Matrix: Interpreting the Real Estate Economy and Soapbox: Appraisal Ethics, Ideas and Industry Issues.
Since 1994, Jonathan has authored a number of reports on the New York real estate market for Prudential Douglas Elliman: The Manhattan Market Report (10-year analysis), The Manhattan Market Overview (quarterly) and The Manhattan Townhouse Report (10-year analysis). The reports are the first to cover the entire island of Manhattan and the only major studies that are independently prepared, making them the "reports of record." They are widely used by local, regional and national media as well as national and local lending institutions, government agencies, the Federal Reserve, New York City Office of Management and Budget and the Internal Revenue Service. In addition, he prepares the Long Island/Queens Market Overview which analyzes about 10,000 sales per quarter in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Additional market reports of the region are currently under development. The current reports have an annualized distribution in both print and internet downloads of more than 300,000 copies.
A more detailed curriculum vitae is available upon request.
