Real Estate Finance & Investments + Excel templates CD-ROM (Real Estate Finance and Investments)

Real Estate Finance & Investments is today’s most indispensable, hands-on look at the increasingly vital arena of real estate partnerships, secondary mortgage markets, and fixed- and adjustable- rate mortgages. Updates to this edition include completely revised coverage of REITs, expanded coverage of CMBS, more detail on how underlying economic factors affect property value, and short readings based on current events.

Customer Review: 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.
Customer Review: 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! Click here to find out more …