TrendCzarTM
TrendCzarTM is a blogwritten by Jonathan D. Miller of Miller Ryan LLC, identifying and commenting onimportant trends, which impact real estate investment and development as well onhow and where people work and live. Updated twice weekly, TrendCzar comprisesoriginal observations about news and events as well as provides originalreporting on trend views of various experts and observers with appropriatecommentary.
JonathanD. Miller
Jonathan Miller is apartner and co-owner of Miller Ryan LLC, a strategic marketing communicationsconsulting firm to the financial services and real estate industries. Miller hasmore than 25 years of communications and marketing experience in the real estateindustry, counseling many leading executives. For the past 15 years he has alsoauthored Emerging Trends in Real Estate, the Urban Land Institute´s (ULI)premier annual industry forecast and speaks extensively on suburban and urbanissues. He is also author of ULI's Infrastructure 2008: A Global Perspectives, amajor analysis on the looming changes facing the
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Jonathan D. Miller
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.
