About Us

Mike E. Miles, PhD                                                                                
Portfolio Manager                                                   
Chapel Hill, NC

919.967.3500

mmiles@guggenheimrealestate.com

Dr. Miles is the Senior Managing Director responsible for portfolio management. Prior to forming Guggenheim Real Estate LLC, Mike served as Portfolio Manager for the Fidelity Real Estate Asset Manager, a series of institutional investment vehicles that combine public securities with direct real estate ownership. Before joining Fidelity, Mike was Executive Vice President of the Prudential Realty Group and Managing Director of Prudential Real Estate Advisors. Mike also served as Vice President of Finance for Albert Investment Corporation, a real estate development firm. Mike was also previously a Foundation Professor of Real Estate and the Associate Dean of the Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mike is a past president of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (“NCREIF”) and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. He has received two of the real estate investment industry’s most prestigious awards: the Robert Toigo Award for leadership in real estate portfolio management from Institutional Real Estate and the Graaskamp Award for contributions to real estate research from the Pension Real Estate Association. He is the lead author of the Urban Land Institute’s Development Process Text. He was also the Editor of Institutional Investor’s Real Estate Finance for 10 years. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University and holds an MBA from Stanford and a PhD from the University of Texas.