This reference book is a comprehensive resource on the language of valuation. It includes a glossary of terms and illustrations related to architecture, valuation, construction and related disciplines and contains over 5,000 entries. This dictionary includes information on real estate organizations, important US government agencies, legislation, and programs, significant US Supreme Court decisions, and useful measures and conversions.

This work provides plain explanations, practical examples, and exercises to explain the terminology used in buying and selling real estate.

This dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of real-estate terminology.

This index contains definitions for over 2,000 terms encountered in real estate management and includes: acronyms, abbreviations, and mathematical formulas, laws that impact real estate operations, as well as terminologies from other related disciplines such as accounting, finance, contracting, insurance, and risk management.

This dictionary is a quick-reference source to the industry's terminology. There are more than 3,000 short-entry terms and definitions covering topics that include: appraisal, architectural styles, brokerage, construction, development, finance, mortgage types, and zoning. Many definitions are supplemented with graphs, charts, and illustrations. 900 pages.

This handbook includes information on tax laws, contracts, licensing, franchising, managing a real estate office, investing, marketing, and the role of real estate agents.

This work examines the relevance of diversity and inclusion in the real estate and construction workplace. It provides a guide that can assist human resource professionals and organizational leaders recruit a diverse workforce.

This industry guide explains how finances drive decision making in the real estate development process. This text provides information on the basics of real estate finance; land valuation for acquisitions: task management and budgeting; capital markets for real estate; obtaining financing for development; finance structuring options; public/private partnerships; as well as how developers raise capital.

This work examines strategic planning for all types of real estate companies: large and small; public and private; and those that are geographically focused. This publication covers mission, vision and core values; industry strategy; customer brand; core competency strategy; growth and geographic deployment; and profitability. Strategies based on organization, capital and cycles are examined. This text contains case studies.

This text is an easy-to-read guide to using quantitative methods in modeling and forecasting real estate assets. It is accessible to those with some knowledge of econometric techniques. Emphasis is placed on regression analysis. There are extensive examples.

This monograph examines the role of the housing market in the "Great Recession of 2007" from a historic perspective. It investigates the role of the housing and mortgage crises in relation to earlier recessionary episodes. It examines prior policy interventions, and how historical housing and mortgage markets worked and failed. The text explores historical experiences with mortgage secularization and the role that federal policy played in the surge in home ownership between 1940 and 1960.

This text provides qualitative techniques for modelling and forecasting the performance of real estate based on data, and serves as a practical introduction to econometric analysis. It explains models and provides examples.

The papers in this scholarly collection span a thirty-five year period from 1960 when the field of housing economics was just beginning to attract attention. Topics covered include housing and urban spatial structures, housing supply, the analysis of housing demand and empirical and theoretical studies of housing quality and prices. One of the features which complicates economic analysis of housing is the severe regulation of the housing and land markets; the implications of such controls, including rent control, local taxes and housing subsidies are investigated, as are the effects of property taxes and the provision of public services on housing choice.

American Housing Production, 1880-2000 presents a concise history of non-farm housing production, progress, and policy in the United States. This monograph has been divided into a 14-part chronological structure with irregular time intervals, in contrast to conventional decade time periods. This arrangement is intended to reflect more fully the economic and political forces causing short run movements in housing output. This book treats housing production within a broad economic, demographic, and political context. Special relative measures of housing production, mortgage debt, and household formation have been developed to provide historical perspective over the period covered. Strong emphasis is placed on the growth and improved quality of the housing stock and on the evolution of community facilities essential to safe and sanitary housing, and of a mortgage credit system capable of supporting rising levels of production and home ownership. It analyzes the uneven results of Federal housing legislation, including the effort to assure equal access for all citizens to housing and mortgage markets.

This step-by-step guide explains how to use RSMeans construction cost data to estimate construction costs. This text includes problems and exercises.

This comprehensive almanac of the real estate and construction industry profiles top firms in the industry, statistics, and market trends. Industry statistics include: real estate value, housing inventory, assets and liability, mortgages outstanding and by holder, demographics on home ownership, home sales, construction, vacancy rates, and sector employment. There is a large index of companies within industry groups, with contact information, financial data, executive salaries as well as growth plans. The text contains trade association information. A limited amount of this information is available online to patrons onsite from Hathi Trust External

Prepared in connection with the decennial investigation authorized by the Permanent Census Act pertaining to public indebtedness, valuations, taxation, revenues, and expenditures. Available online from Hathi Trust External

This text provides information on legal concepts, mortgages, residential housing, income-producing properties, financing, real estate funds, and portfolio analysis.