Real Estate Finance & Investments: Risks and Opportunities, Second Edition

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Peter Linneman, almost an academic celebrity in Real Estate, heralds from the The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He writes the book like he's talking in a conversational manner. It makes you feel like you're in a college classroom! The book is an insightful read for those looking to learn the basics about real estate finance. The book covers a lot of pro forma analysis and breaks down the basics of valuing real estate. It has a fair amount of spreadsheet examples to deliver the valuation lessons and builds examples from the beginning of a valuation analysis, as though you're going to start your own valuation project and spreadsheet. Topics include feasibility analysis, bankruptcy basics, commercial mortgage-backed securities, REITs, private equity, and real estate cycles. Considering how short the book is, it's very worth the read. It took me two weekend days. This is also one of the books required for the first exam of the CAIA. To get the best price on this book, buy it straight from Linneman's web page; it is the cheapest there.

This book is issued by Linneman and Associates directly for $135. The bozos selling it at a "used" price are actually marking it up quite a bit. Do your shopping carefully.

Very well written book, the same style as his quarterly research letter. This is a fantastic real estate 101 introductory book. I wouldn't call it a real estate finance 101 book because of the lack of exercises. This book is a great textbook to parrallel the Brugerman real estate finance textbook (more finance exercise oriented). This book fills the conceptual gap the Brugerman textbook fails to hit at a basic level. Highly recommended as a supplement to any real estate curriculum.

As a University of Chicago economics PhD and Professor of Real Estate Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the few business schools that teaches the real estate business in a thoroughgoing way, Peter Linneman is the top real estate finance academic in the country. I recently heard him speak at a conference on real estate mergers in NYC, and he was one of the best professional speakers of any kind that I have ever heard in 20 years of real estate law practice. His splendid textbook, Real Estate Finance & Investments, reads almost exactly like he speaks. It's like a superb, clear, and witty set of lectures, all encapsulated in a textbook. Linneman is not only a topflight academic, but has substantial direct involvement in the real estate business. This very much shows in the book, which takes the most abstract scholarly knowledge and makes it easy to understand through examples of crystalline clarity. It is a godsend to those who work in the real estate sector that someone as smart as Linneman would take the time to write this awesome textbook, which not only must be the best textbook on real estate finance, but is one of the best textbooks of any kind I have ever read. There are only opportunitities, and no risks in buying and reading this super textbook.