Real estate
Property investing has no single canon; the best books are about how land, credit and politics interact rather than about deal mechanics.
12 books · 14 people behind it
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- Bubble in the SunChristopher Knowlton, 2020
- Crabgrass FrontierKenneth T. Jackson, 1985
- The Power BrokerRobert A. Caro, 1974
The people behind it 14
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 5
Bruce Flattnamed in their tagsMJ
Martin J. Whitmannamed in their tags
Sam Zellnamed in their tags
Seth Klarmannamed in their tags
Stephen A. Schwarzmannamed in their tagsFounders 2
Executives 3
Academics 1
Journalists 3
Books 12
Robert A. Caro · 1974 · Robert Moses and how land use is actually decided.
Michael Lewis · 2010 · The subprime mortgage bubble seen from the investors who shorted it.
Kenneth T. Jackson · 1985 · Suburbanization of the United States; the standard history.
Atif Mian, Amir Sufi · 2014 · Household leverage as the mechanism of the housing bust.
Richard Rothstein · 2017 · How federal housing policy engineered segregation.
Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz · 1987 · Insider account of a New York developer's own deals.
William B. Brueggeman, Jeffrey Fisher · 1993 · The standard university text on property underwriting.
Charles V. Bagli · 2013 · The Stuyvesant Town deal and the largest real estate loss on record.
Christopher Knowlton · 2020 · The 1920s Florida land boom and its collapse.
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Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, Jay Papasan · 2003 · Retail-level guide to residential rental accumulation.