Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

Send feedback

What is it?
Screenshots, up to 3 (optional)
or paste one with Ctrl+V

We use your email only to reply to you.

Real estate

Assets

Property investing has no single canon; the best books are about how land, credit and politics interact rather than about deal mechanics.

Books 12Experts 2Recommenders 17

Start here

  1. Bubble in the SunChristopher Knowlton, 2020
  2. Crabgrass FrontierKenneth T. Jackson, 1985
  3. The Power BrokerRobert A. Caro, 1974
The Power BrokerThe Power Broker
T1 The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro · 1974
Open LibraryGoodreads

How an unelected official amassed power and used it to rebuild New York.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Jim Collins and 8 others

The Big ShortThe Big Short
T1 The Big Short
Michael Lewis · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

The few investors who saw subprime mortgage bonds would fail, and bet against them.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai and 5 others

Crabgrass FrontierCrabgrass Frontier
T2 Crabgrass Frontier
Kenneth T. Jackson · 1985
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Americans chose separate suburban houses and how that shaped the country.

House of DebtHouse of Debt
T2 House of Debt
Atif Mian, Amir Sufi · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

County data showing household debt, not the banks, caused the Great Recession.

The Color of LawThe Color of Law
T2 The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

How federal housing policy engineered segregation.

Trump: The Art of the DealTrump: The Art of the Deal
T3 Trump: The Art of the Deal
Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account of a New York developer's own deals.

Recommended by: Shane Parrish

Real Estate Finance and InvestmentsReal Estate Finance and Investments
T3 Real Estate Finance and Investments
William B. Brueggeman, Jeffrey Fisher · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

Real estate finance from property law to mortgages, underwriting and valuation.

Other People's Money
T3 Other People's Money
Charles V. Bagli · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Stuyvesant Town deal and the largest real estate loss on record.

Recommended by: Vinod Khosla

Bubble in the SunBubble in the Sun
T3 Bubble in the Sun
Christopher Knowlton · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1920s Florida land boom and its collapse.

Recommended by: Morgan Housel

How to Invest in Real Estate: The Ultimate B
T3 How to Invest in Real Estate: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Getting Started
Brandon Turner, Joshua Dorkin
Goodreads

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

The Millionaire Real Estate InvestorThe Millionaire Real Estate Investor
T4 The Millionaire Real Estate Investor
Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, Jay Papasan · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Retail-level guide to residential rental accumulation.

Long-Distance Real Estate Investing
T4 Long-Distance Real Estate Investing
David Greene
Goodreads

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

More assets

← Private credit and direct lendingREITs →All assets