Background: The Hoyt Institute is an invite only think tank based in North Palm Beach, Florida, where industry research leaders and academics partake in a few days of in-depth...
About Norm Miller
The Professor
Do you want to live forever?
Two books have come out in the last few years that seem especially relevant to those baby boomers now experiencing a variety of ailments correlated with age: dementia,...
The Professor
How to trade house prices
In 1988 Michael Sklarz and I published a paper called “It’s Time for Some Options in Real Estate.” In 1995 David Geltner and I suggested that we needed a fourth asset class,...
Face to Face
Interviews with three proptech leaders
Originally published April 2021. Proptech is not new: a conversation with (above, from left to right) Jim Young, founder and CEO of Realcomm, Michael Beckerman, CEO of CREtech,...
The Professor
The Future of Real Estate Tokenization Written for Cynics and Thought Leaders
This discussion could be called “Real Estate Tokenization 2.0 or 3.0” parallel to the evolution we witnessed in the CMBS market some years ago. We remain in the PropTech era of...
Golden Oldie
Electric vs gas cars – a real life (husband and wife) comparison
How they work and the implications. Part 1: the economics Recently, a colleague posted an opinion on social media that he would stick with his gas-powered Mustang, stating...