Real Estate Finance and Investments,   ISBN:9780073658094

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The book presents a good overview of Real Estate Finance in historical, legal, investment and financing terms. A good book to follow while taking a Real Estate Finance class.

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This book is for a hands on real estate person, not for a person in real estate high finance, like myself. I enjoyed flipping through a few chapters but haven't used it as much as I'd have liked to because it's very property-level oriented, less about financing, joint ventures, private equity, etc.

If you want a good overview of buildings and owning them yourself, this is a great book. Not for the real estate finance professional, however.

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I bought this book to prepare myself for an internship at some real estate company. Overall, I really like this book because this book:

1. covers extensive areas of real estate finance with solid contents

2. it comes with a CD that lets you see many of the examples given in the book on spread sheets.

3. it gives you a trial version of Argus software.

What I didn't like about this book is:

1. it doesn't give exercises on each component it teaches, so you won't have chances to learn and practice. You will have to wait till the end of each chapter and do problems which are very hard without practicing small exercises.

2. in addition to 1, it doesn't have any answers in the end of the book, so there is no way you can verify your answers.

3. this book would be so much easier to read if it broke down long paragraphs into smaller ones and used bullet points.

I would still recommend this book since it is very good overall.

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This is the 11th edition. I noticed that McGraw-Hill has released a 12th edition complete with CD-ROM. For the price you pay, you should get the latest!

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I have what is undoubledly the best book I have seen on real estate calculations for using the HP-12C financial calculator: this book is authored by Mr. John A. Tirone. I called Mr. Tirone several months ago to see what he suggested I consider reading to beef up my understanding of real estate finance and whatever else he felt might help me as a prospective (hopeful) investor some day in real estate. Mr. Tirone suggested the Brueggeman-Fisher book, which I acquired through amazon, plus the McLean-Eldred "Investing in real Estate" book, which our office purchased through amazon as well. Both the Brueggemann and McLean books seem to give the reader an indepth coverage of the field though we probably never would have come to these books were it not for the fact that we have Mr. Tirone's Professional Real Estate Problem Solving books since he supports his book without charge and is exceptionally helpful with those who call or e-mail him.
I work in real estate brokerage, though I have yet to buy an investment property for my own account!