Real Estate - Real Estate Development, Principles and Process

Learn how the real estate development process works with the new edition of this best-selling book. Widely used by developers, planners, architects, investors, and other players on the development team, this book provides the most practical and thorough introduction to real estate development available.
Using an eight-stage model of the development process, the authors explain idea conception, feasibility, planning, financing, market analysis, contract negotiation, construction, and asset management. Ongoing case studies of an office and multifamily development provide realistic examples.

This edition features fresh data, the latest demographics information, all new chapters on finance, a new chapter on affordable housing, all new material on market analysis, updated information on market research, contract negotiation, and marketing, a new multifamily case study, and an appendix on the impact of economic and demographic trends.

• This is the Urban Land Institute's best-selling book. If you are involved in real estate development or entering the field, this book will tell you how the process works, who the players are, and what you need to know to be successful.

  Since 1936, the Urban Land Institute has been a nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to improving land use policy and development practice.