Jonathan Miller

The Plural Of Anecdotal Is Not Data – The Tariff Tantrum Impact Creates Housing Chaos

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / May 4, 2025 /

By Jonathan MillerSpecial Contributor There are lots of stories coming out of the brokerage community about properties being de-listed or deals blowing up attributable to the Tariff Tantrums the world is currently enduring. I’ve been talking at length about the uncertainty that tariffs burden consumers within the decision-making process, especially when no underlying strategy or…

Werewolves Of High-End Housing: You’ve Already Let ‘Em In

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 9, 2025 /

By Jonathan MillerSpecial Contributor There was a great Wall Street Journal piece (free link) on the decline in available lower priced Miami home sales. It’s the result of prices rising so quickly and a shift in the mix to larger more high-end new product flowing into the market. The high-end market seems better equipped to weather the current economic…

Jonathan Miller: About That Report on Office to Residential Conversions

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / February 23, 2025 /

By Jonathan MillerSpecial Contributor We continue to hear about a commercial office recovery, but that is misleading – it is coming from commercial leasing brokers which is a conflict. Commercial office is often selling for ±30 cents on the dollar as WFH continues to savage rent levels. Yet the high-end office market is doing fine. And now we are seeing…

Kick Off The New Year With This $15 Million Crescent Estates Mansion

By Karen Eubank / January 6, 2025 /

Jonathan Miller always gets it right. I had just read his latest Housing Notes newsletter when this gorgeous Crescent Estates Custom Homes mansion popped up in MLS, cementing Miller’s latest report on luxury real estate.  Miller is president and CEO of Miller Samuel Inc., a real estate appraisal and consulting firm he co-founded in New…

What Opendoor Had to Say to the Nation’s Top Real Estate Appraisers in Frisco

By Candy Evans / November 1, 2017 /

  Take-away: Opendoor is a tech company with artificial intelligence hard at work behind the scenes, so they are learning in real time from every bit of data input, every listing, every sale A presentation by Dallas Opendoor was one of the most anticipated presentations at last weeks’ annual RAC (Relocation Appraisers & Consultants) industry conference at…