The Real Estate Developer's Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Real Estate Development
Tanya Davis
2 Resenhas
Atlantic Publishing Company, 30/06/2007 - 288 páginas
Are you the Next Donald Trump? Successful real estate developers can become enormously wealthy. However, the flip side is many developers run out of cash before cashing in. Poor cash flow is the primary cause of business failure for real estate developers. This new book details how to become a successful real estate developer and demonstrates step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful real estate development enterprise. The author has explored every avenue in explaining this potentially rewarding yet risky business. The book covers the entire process of establishing a small real estate development firm and the ongoing management necessary in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid the many common mistakes that can doom a start-up. The book focuses on small developments that you can start by yourself featuring both residential and commercial applications. Once the basic skills are learned, the book points out areas of expansion by leveraging your first investment. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding your first location that will bring success, learning how to draw up a winning business plan, installing basic cost control systems, assembling your team of experts, generating high profile public relations and publicity, learning low cost marketing ideas and low- and no-cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales, setting up accounting and bookkeeping procedures, and auditing. There are thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. You will learn the development process, governmental issues, environmental issues, demographics and trends, market research, site selection, feasibility analysis, due diligence, preliminary p
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Urban and Real Estate Economics
Edited by: Steve Ross
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Issue date: 2012-04-17
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In this issue we have:
Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ejaz Ghani; Arti Grover Goswami; William R. Kerr
A Regional Model of Endogenous Growth with Creative Destruction
Steven Bond-Smith
Local average neighborhood effects from moving to opportunity
Dionissi Aliprantis; Francisca G.-C. Richter
Compulsory Schooling Laws and In-School Crime: Are Delinquents Incapacitated?
Gregory A. Gilpin; Luke A. Pennig
What price a roof? Housing and the cost of living in 16th-century Toledo
Drelichman, Mauricio; Gonzalez Agudo, David
Well-Being in Germany: GDP and Unemployment Still Matter
Johannes Vatter
Landfill Diversion in a Decentralized Setting: a Dynamic Assessment of Landfill Taxes
Massimiliano Mazzanti; Francesco Nicolli
Taxing home ownership: distributional effects of including net imputed rent in taxable income
Francesco Figari; Alari Paulus; Holly Sutherland; Panos Tsakloglou; Gerlinde Verbist; Francesca Zantomio
Early Childhood "Pay-For-Success" Social Impact Finance: A PKSE Bond Example to Increase School Readiness and Reduce Special Education Costs
Robert Dugger; Robert Litan
Complex Methods in Economics: An Example of Behavioral Heterogeneity in House Prices
Bolt, W.; Demertzis, D.; Diks, C.G.H.; Van der Leij, M.J.
Robust Test for Spatial Error Model:Considering Changes of Spatial Layouts and Distribution Misspecification
Guo, Penghui; Liu, Lihu
Comparing Treatments across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Nonexperimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies
Carlos A. Flores; Oscar A. Mitnik
Understanding Places Using a Mixed Method Approach
Deutsch, Kathleen E; Goulias, Konstadinos G.
Hope VI Fairfield Court Neighborhood: 2011 Evaluat
Property and Construction Research Group
Research in property and construction covers a wide range of activities. While we are interested in every aspect of research in property and construction, there are particular areas we specialise in. These include property valuation, construction and project management, construction economics, and energy use in buildings.
In property and planning, our recent research has focused on business improvement districts, the use of taxation in sustainable development, and property and development finance. Property research has also focused on commercial leases and rent reviews.
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Our construction management research focuses on incentivisation schemes in project management, risk management of projects and project finance. Research in construction economics has been in infrastructure markets, international construction and economic theory applied to the construction sector.
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Just-in-time real estate: how trends in logistics are driving industrial development
Margery Al Chalabi, Anne Frej
0 Resenhas
Urban Land Institute, 01/01/2004 - 143 páginas
How are changes in logistics and distribution affecting commercial property development? This book reveals the effect on the demand, design, and site selection process for commercial space near transportation terminals in the U.S. and overseas.
Investing in REITs: real estate investment trusts
Ralph L. Block
6 Resenhas
Bloomberg Press, 01/01/2006 - 367 páginas
The consistency of REITs' earnings and their high dividend yields, together with the low correlation of REIT stock prices with prices of other asset classes, make real estate investment trusts a unique opportunity for investors. Drawing on more than thirty years of successful investing experience with REITs, Ralph L. Block has created the ultimate REIT guide. This third edition, fully updated, explains the ins and outs of this attractive asset class in an uncomplicated style that makes it easy for novice and professional investors, as well as financial planners and investment advisers, to find what they need to know. This new edition offers the following: How to spot blue-chip REITs and control investment risk How REITs compare with other investments How to build a diversified REIT portfolio, directly or with REIT mutual funds Understanding the risk-and-reward dynamics of commercial real estate Important new developments and strategies in the REIT industry
Packed with color photographs and illustrations, this handbook covers the best practices, techniques, and trends. It explains the development process step-by-step and includes 14 case study examples of new construction, adaptive use, airport-related development, and mixed office and industrial facilities.
Benefits Of Having A Real Estate Agent Website
There are thousands of individuals who rely on selling real estate to make a living. These individuals are known as real estate agents. The majority of real estate agents work for an existing real estate agency; however, there are a number of agents who work on their own. Whether you have your own real estate business or work for an existing company there are number of benefits to having a real estate agent website.
Real estate agents are trained professionals that many individuals go to when they need help to sell their existing home or to purchase a new one. A large amount of trust is needed to do business with a real estate agent. New home buyers or sellers want the reassurance that they are doing business with an individual who is working in their best interest. Since it is often hard to develop a sense of trust with an individual that you hardly know a Real Estate Agent Website could come in handy.
A real estate website is not guaranteed to prove that a real estate agent is legitimate or offering the best service around; however, it is still helpful. A real estate agent website will give you valuable insight into the personal life and professional training that a real estate agent may have had. A real estate agent website will common have information on the agent in question. Common information may include their age, where they live, any children, any community ties, where they went to school, or any relevant real estate training they may have had.
If you are a real estate agent and you currently do not have a real estate agent website you should consider having one made. When making a real estate agent website there are two options that you should consider. You can develop your own website or hire a professional to do it for you. Hiring a professional will cost money; however, professional websites are more likely to increase your website traffic and possibly your real estate sales. The end result would mak
Real Estate Search Engine Marketing Options
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Real Estate Search Engine Marketing: Options for Real Estate Agents
Using search engines has become one of the most popular activities on the Internet, second only to email. But with millions of websites and billions of web pages, potential homebuyers need a tool that can sift through this clutter to find the realtor websites relevant to their search.
Thanks mostly to the techniques pioneered by Google, search engines have become remarkably effective at providing results that are highly relevant to the term or phrase the user searches on like
Homes for Sale. But to be relevant, you have to be found, and this is where search engine marketing comes in.
What is Real Estate Search Engine Marketing?
You may have great inventory, a fantastic local clientele, and a high-end new website, but if that website doesn't show up on the first two pages of Google (or Yahoo, MSN, or Ask Jeeves), you're not getting the exposure you need to remain competitive.
Why aren't you showing up? You may have overlooked Real Estate Search Engine Marketing. Effective search engine marketing is about more than just optimizing your website or submitting it to the search engines for indexing. When hundreds or thousands of your competitors are competing with you on your service and keywords, just one Internet marketing technique won't give you high rankings.
Studies have proven what most Internet users know already - people usually do not look past the first two pages of search results. And with over 71% of homebuyers initiating their home search on the Internet (according to the National Association of Realtors), you can't afford to miss out on all of those active buyers. And if your site isn't ranked high, it probably isn't pulling in leads either - leads that translate to more sales and more commissions.
How does it work?
Unlike organic search engine optimization, which you (or your webmasters) can do yourself, Real
Niche Social Networking For The Realtor
Facebook and MySpace are starting to get recognized as useful tools in networking for the online realtor. However, as social networking sites have become one of the front runners in connecting people on the Internet, people are starting to get interested in "niche" social networking: sites that connect people interested in specific subjects.
Active Rain is a network that has taken this concept and turned it into a growing community of realtors, real estate-related professionals and people looking for the right agent for them. It has pages for individuals to post information about themselves and the services they provide, forums, blogs, and a Q&A forum where people can post questions about real estate. So far, 60,000 people have become members, which makes for a lot of exposure on the site.
One does not need to be an Internet guru to create a "niche" network, though. It can be done with existing networking sites and applications. The key is to start out creating decent, useful information on your focus in the market. If you are selling homes in the Sunset Hill neighborhood of Seattle, by all means, start a Facebook group or your own message board about the Sunset Hill neighborhood. Whatever it is, make sure that it allows people to weigh in, ask questions and post answers. Social Networking For The Realtor is a must have
Post information on the schools there, and the issues about them, the job scene, house care when dealing with Seattle weather… anything and everything that has to do with Sunset Hill and Seattle homes. Make sure it's relevant, make sure it's up-to-date. Look beyond selling houses and post about what people buying homes in Seattle and Sunset Hill are concerned about.
If you have happy clients who have conducted their home transaction through you, keep in contact with them and let them know about the site. Many home owners would be interested to know about a sit
Bubble trouble in Brazil
Property prices are skyrocketing in Brazil. The construction sector is booming. And the mortgage market is expanding rapidly. But there is a growing concern that all this is unsustainable. And imbalances in the economy - an overvalued currency and high inflation - are exacerbating the dangers of the looming credit and property bubble.
The average asking prices of new apartments across the country soared by 24.7% in April 2011 from a year earlier, according to Exame Magazine (using data from Ibope Intelligence, the largest Brazilian market intelligence firm).
Based on the Ibope Intelligence figures, in April 2011:
*In Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro's most expensive district, the average price of new properties rose 36% y-o-y to BRL13,031 (US$8,212) per sq. m., while the price of existing properties increased 25% y-o-y to BRL12,134 (US$7,646) per sq. m.
*In Jardim Paulista, Sao Paolo's most expensive district, the average price of new properties rose 39% y-o-y to BRL9,120 per sq. m (US$5,747); the average price of existing properties escalated 49% y-o-y to BRL6,959 (US$4,385) per sq. m.
The FIPE ZAP Index of Dwelling Price Offers shows Sao Paolo dwelling prices up 25.9% during the year to April 2011, and up 83.7% over the past 3 years.
In just two years (2008-2010), the average selling price of new one-bedroom apartments in São Paulo almost doubled. Newly launched two to four-bedroom apartments increased in value by between 40% and 60% over the same period, according to Embraesp, a local real estate research firm.
Looking longer term, from 1996 to 2010, prices of newly launched apartments in São Paolo rose by almost 229% (131.6% in real terms), according to Embraesp, as the accompanying graph shows. For all years since 1996 price rises have been strongly positive, except in 2007, when house prices dropped slightly due