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Title: The Real Estate Game : The Intelligent Guide To Decisionmaking And Investment by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank ISBN: 0-684-85550-X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 13 September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best of the RE Investment Books!
Comment: The vast majority of real estate investment books to be found in the Barnes & Noble investment section offer variations of Mark Twain's stock market advice: "making money in stocks is easy. Only buy a stock if it goes up; if it doesn't go up, don't buy it." By contrast, Poorvu walks readers through myriad real estate investment situations, fleshing out the risks and rewards, and the mindsets of the various players. While written in an anecdotal style replete with real-life examples, the book also presents an encyclopedic overview of investment opportunities (direct, REIT, syndicates, etc.) and asset categories (residential, commercial, industrial, etc.). This is a real estate investment book written by an adult, for adults -- in contrast to all the other get-rich-quick-no-money-down titles targeting gullible novices.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Sophisticated Yet Interesting Real Estate book
Comment: Harvard Business School Professor and real estate investor William Poorvu has written a book about real estate is far above most real estate books. This book is nowhere near the run of the mill generic real estate book that tries to tell everything about real estate to people who don't have a clue. "The Real Estate Game" is a sophisticated commercial real estate book written by a real estate insider. This is not a book about buying your first house with no down payment.
What this is, is a book about commercial real estate projects from concept, commitment, development, operations, and harvest. The authors bring a behind the scenes and insiders' approach to commercial development. He lays it out in the form of a game with properties, capital markets, players and external environment. One of the stories in the book is that of Bill Zeckendorf's classic assemblage of Swift slaughterhouses into the United Nations property and vicinity. Included in the book is the authors' commercial due diligence checklist. This book would be most interesting to a person involved in commercial real estate, someone interested in commercial real estate or someone interested in the business of commercial real estate. I think that this is the kind of book that you can refer back to time and time again. There is a lot of information in this book and it may even be a book that you will want to read more than once. It has a depth, and quality of information contained far superior to the average mass media real estate book without the dryness of a real estate textbook
Rating: 5
Summary: Rare good book on Commercial Real Estate
Comment: Considering how few books there are on commercial real estate I was happy to find this one. It has plenty of true-life examples and practical advice. The reviews that criticize the book because it assumes you are well-funded large-deal investor are not well taken. With bookstore shelves overflowing with how-to books about getting houses with no money down - books that assume you have no money, no experience and no real estate knowledge - we need some books for people doing large commercial deals. If that's not your focus, then this just isn't your book.
I do think the book would be better off without the real estate "game" angle. It reminds me of something an editor would coax the author to work in as a sort of hook or gimmick, and doesn't add much. But that's minor. Overall, entertaining and informative without covering the same ground as umpteen other texts.
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Title: Real Estate Finance and Investments (Real Estate Finance and Investments, 11th Ed) by William B. Brueggeman, Jeffrey D. Fisher ISBN: 007365809X Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $125.35 |
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Title: How to Make Money in Commercial Real Estate : For the Small Investor by Nicholas Masters ISBN: 0471355437 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 23 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Real Estate Development : Principles and Process by Mike E. Miles, Gayle Berens, Marc A. Weiss, Urban Land Institute, Mike, E. Miles ISBN: 0874208254 Publisher: Urban Land Institute Pub. Date: 17 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $75.95 |
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Title: The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings by Steve Berges ISBN: 0471436399 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 16 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Investing in Real Estate, Fourth Edition by Andrew McLean, Gary W. Eldred ISBN: 047132339X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 21 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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