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 | | Real Estate Finance and Investments by William B Brueggeman, Jeffrey Fisher ISBN-10: 9780073658094 ISBN-10: 0-07-365809-X ISBN-13: 9780073658094 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-365809-4 Hardcover 2001-08-01 McGraw-Hill/Irwin Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This text is the market leader for the Real Estate Finance course. This is primarily due to its comprehensive and current coverage. Instructors find the text to be authoritative, rigorous and trustworthy, making it a classic in the field. This edition continues to evolve to provide students with the tools they need to understand and analyze real estate markets and the investment alternatives available to both debt and equity investors. | ||
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Solid and practical content, but could be better written for students 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. | ||
Nice book - wrong edition. 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! | ||
Purchased on Mr. Tirone's recommendation 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! | ||
A Must This is one of the best books I have ever read about real estate. I read plenty of books on real estate but this one does a great job on explaining how the real estate industry works. It talks about residential real estate market and its financing. Then it goes on to commercial real estate. It talks about real estate development and then the secondary market. It really is a great book that I would recommend to anybody interested in real estate. As a real estate appraiser I gained a lot from this book. | ||
Great text, check out the new edition I've taken a look at a previous edition of the Brueggeman and Fisher text and it is definitely the only nuts and bolts handbook for practitioners. If you're new to the field and just out of school, try the Geltner and Miller text, which flows from real estate economics through portfolio analysis, reads like an MBA manual - it isn't as bad as most reviewers say, they're just stating where they think they are. These two are fundamentally different books, but just as worthy in their own area of approach. Be advised that a new edition of Real Estate Finance and Investments has just been published in June 2004 by McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0071238212 - check it out on amazon.co.uk if you can't find it on amazon.com. Should come in at about seventy bucks. Well worth the cash, if only as an aide-memoire. | ||