Real Estate Capital Markets: Evolution, Structure, Participants explores the historical development, current structure, and future trends within the United States real estate capital sector. The book offers insight into the public and private real estate capital markets expansion and the pivotal moments shaping it, such as the recent global pandemic. It investigates structures like REITs, commercial mortgage-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations, and derivatives, focusing on their role and regulation in the market.

Applying the four quadrants to delineate between public and private equity and debt, the book provides a thorough framework for understanding real estate capital market dynamics. It covers pertinent topics such as debt instruments, valuation processes, and the impact of technological advancements like PropTech and blockchain.

Real Estate Capital Markets is ideal for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses in finance, real estate, architecture, urban planning, and investment, equipping students with comprehensive knowledge of the strategic underpinnings of the capital landscape in real estate. It is also ideal for industry professionals, as well as any reader who has an interest in real estate finance.

Up your game in today’s lucrative real estate market with 10 proven steps from investing insider James Nelson. Featuring a foreword by bestselling author and star of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing” Ryan Serhant.

Valuing automobile dealerships requires specialized knowledge of the physical features of dealerships as well as trends in the real estate and automotive industries. A Guide to Appraising Automobile Dealerships, second edition, explores changing car buying habits, new business models, and various types of vehicle-related properties and addresses the concerns of users of appraisal reports. Case studies and real-life examples are included along with guidance from industry experts.

A Guide to Appraising Automobile Dealerships, second edition, will help commercial real estate appraisers examine the relevant issues considered in the valuation of auto dealerships and offer new insights to professionals involved in the design, development, and financing of these unique properties.

The eagerly awaited sequel to ‘Making a Living, Making a Life’ (Kirkus Best Indie Books of 2015), ‘The Examined Life’ is the second collection by noted essayist, philanthropist and business leader Daniel Rose. It includes essays, speeches, editorials written for The Harlem Times, and personal vignettes from 90 years of a rich professional, philanthropic and family life. Touching on subjects as varied as international philanthropy, public education, race relations, criminal justice, religion and gentrification, this collection provides fresh insights and perspectives on a wide range of subjects at the heart of current public discourse. As Fareed Zakaria wrote of ‘Making a Living, Making a Life’, “Dan Rose has created a body of work that is philosophy at its most useful, for it asks the great question first posed by the Greeks and then polished to a high finish in the Renaissance: how does one live a good life?”

By Jack P. Friedman, Ph.D., and J. Bruce Lindeman Ph.D.

Barron’s Real Estate Licensing Exams has been updated to provide the latest information in real estate finance, federal law and regulation, and appraisal license requirements for the 2019 & 2020 exams. This edition covers the material on nationally distributed real estate exams as well as state-distributed exams.

Whether launching a new business, needing space for expansion, or investing in real estate, this book is an easy to follow guide when buying commercial property. The authors have seen virtually every problem than can occur in a commercial real estate transaction; therefore, the information they share will help companies avoid the typical pitfalls of buying a building. Chapters include such important topics as which professional resources to assemble to ensure that any challenges will be addressed, financing, accounting, selecting a bank, and more . Co-author: Alex Ruggieri, CRE.

Appraisers valuing golf properties are increasingly bringing sophisticated new methodology to the market and appraisal practice. This book provides the most current information available on the economics and valuation of golf courses and clubs. As an authoritative reference for such topics as market segmentation, ownership and management structures, methods of valuing golf properties, common problems encountered by appraisers, the book should be of great interest to attorneys, lenders, tax assessors, golf course developers and managers, appraisers, and other real estate or golf professionals.  Author: Laurence Hirsh, CRE.