Norm Miller, PhD

Norm Miller is a Professor of Real Estate at the University of San Diego.  He recently left a position as V.P. of Analytics for the CoStar Group, a public commercial real estate data and market analysis company headquartered in Washington, D.C.  Prior to CoStar, he was Academic Director at the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate.  He is Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, which he founded in 2009 with the support of CoStar.  See www.josre.org  Previously, he was at the University of Cincinnati where he was Academic Director and the founder of the real estate program. He also spent time as a Visiting Faculty at Depaul and the University of Hawaii.  He started his academic career at the University of Georgia and received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in Finance and Real Estate with a minor in City and Regional Planning. He is active on the Editorial Board of several national/international journals and is a past President of ARES, the American Real Estate Society.  He served for several years on the Cincinnati Port Authority and Riverfront Advisors, where he provided guidance on several public private developments, TIFs, deal structuring and economic inclusion goals.

Dr. Miller has written numerous academic articles, books and articles in trade market publications on housing, brokerage, mortgage risk, valuation, sustainable real estate and many other topics. His research on housing market analysis and forecasting spans three decades.  Currently he has been organizing conferences, panels and speaking on sustainable real estate while working with CBRE and others on research exploring the payoffs from green strategies.  He is a co-founder of Collateral Intelligence, based in Massachusetts, a firm providing micro-level housing market condition forecasts and localized valuations for use in mortgage risk analysis and portfolio valuation.

His most recent book “Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment” with Geltner, Eicholtz and Clayton is in its second edition and is the leading graduate-level textbook on a global basis.  Dr. Miller has lectured globally and domestically from Singapore and Thailand to Russia.  He has worked extensively with various trade associations, became one of the first “Distinguished Fellows” of NAIOP in 2002 and served as one of the primary instructors for NAIOP educational programs from 1998 through 2008. He is currently a Faculty and Board Member at the Homer Hoyt Land Use Institute, based in North Palm Beach, Fla., where he is involved with some premier thought leaders among academics and industry professionals in a think tank setting for annual conferences on real estate issues and trends. Currently he is President of HIRE, the Hoyt Institute for Real Estate (see www.hoyt.org), which promotes commercial real estate education and career path awareness (see www.real-jobs.com a free web site for job and resume posting, which he founded in 1992).