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Real Estate Principles: A Value Approach

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Real Estate Principles is an extremely readable, easy to follow introductory text to Real Estate. The book is well laid out with many excellent examples and studded with references to superb websites. The graphics are great and the exhibits well thought out.

The 'Time Value' of money section is one of the best I've ever read and will help the novice understand this critical aspect of real estate finance/analysis.

The Appraisal chapters thoroughly cover the market, cost and income approaches and the Legal chapters cover the essentials of notes, mortgages and deeds.

'Concept Checks' through out the chapters allow readers to verify their understanding of key points with solutions provided at the end of each chapter.

The book is extremely well organized with each chapter beginning with an outline and a list of 'Learning Objectives'. In addition, each chapter ends with a Summary, a listing of Key Terms and Study Questions.

'Career Focus' is another recurring theme featuring side bars tied to the main text that outline different careers tracks available in real estate.

Because it covers so much, it can't describe enough for someone to say they've learned the ropes. They'll have to find more specialized books or courses to do that. But still, a great book to introduce you to the full scope of real estate- development, financing, marketing, etc. Also lists many useful websites for further research.

I ordered this text book for my son for his college classes. He found the text book to be very useful.

This is an introductory book to real estate. It is not recommended to professionals. Besides that, it does a good job at introducing novices to the real estate markets. I believe it is widely used in colleges and undergraduate classes.

I would buy from here again, the book was in great condition and shipped quickly.

But if only everyone had read this book we might not be in the mess we are in now. It is definitely a college level book, but not so dry that someone who doesn't have a strong math background can't understand. If you want to get into real estate investing it gives you what you need.

The book is pretty easy to read but like most text books, it's boring and you'll probably only read it because you have to...

The organization of the Ling and Archer book is weird but otherwise the book is not bad.