Anyone know of any good Real Estate Development Books?
Anyone have any good recommendation on real estate development books? (Multifam, industrial, etc)
[{"id": "gikx3u5", "text": "The book by John Mcnellis, I forget the name", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gikxg9s", "text": "The encyclopedia of commercial real estate advice\nBy Terry Painter is pretty good and up to date on even Covid related issues", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gikxiza", "text": "From Boom to Bubble and Building American Cities are two I've read in the past year and enjoyed quite a bit.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gikzmoa", "text": "biography of Hines is quite good.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gil2x73", "text": "The Real Estate Game by William J. Poorvu.\n\nCheck it out.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gil67za", "text": "Last Harvest: From Corn Field to New Town", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gil7jel", "text": "I feel like this question gets asked like every day...\n\nBill poorvus real estate game is honestly the only CRE book worth reading. The McNelliss book is all anecdotal and more stories, not that good IMHO. ULI probably has some development books that might be worthwhile, I have them on my shelf but candidly haven\u2019t read them.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gil91t8", "text": "Biography of Zeckandorf is really good.", "replies": [{"id": "gimvel9", "text": "^^^ Sam Zell recommended this in his autobiography.", "replies": [{"id": "gioze5w", "text": "How is zells autobiography? Having heard him speak a few times he has a massively overinflated ego, I would think it\u2019s gotta be a 200 page masturbatory exercise for him", "replies": [{"id": "giqhuzu", "text": "I heard \u201cSam Zell\u2019s autobiography\u201d referenced in an interview with another investor (I don\u2019t recall who \u2639\ufe0f). Honestly it was the first I had heard of Zell, but I added the audio book to my library waitlist and listened a few weeks later. \n\nI enjoyed it, particularly the middle section where he transitions from running his property management business to scaling up.", "replies": [{"id": "gir9opl", "text": "When I was in grad school he spoke to a small group of us and told us we were wasting our time and money on a \u201cfancy mba\u201d and that if we were as smart as we would be to be in this program we were smart enough to quit and start our own company. Kind of insulting.....\n\nAs an aside Elon also spoke to my school, he was a huge asshole too but I guess I expected that coming into the auditorium", "replies": [{"id": "gk3ef31", "text": "I can imagine that would be insulting.", "replies": [], "depth": 6}], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}, {"id": "gj2tpy8", "text": "That's where I found it lol. \n\nI liked Zell's book more generally, but Zeckandorf was a lot more focused on development vs. flipping.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gilcrux", "text": "How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community by Peter Hendee Brown\n\nBest one I\u2019ve read by far. Interviews and stories with many of the most influential developers of the century\n\nULI development books are also good but can get pricey", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gilfbr3", "text": "If you can get your hands on it Trammel Crow Legacy by William Bragg is awesome. Not development related but \u201cAm I being to subtle\u201d by Sam Zell is fantastic.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gim31le", "text": "Personally like Robert Ringer... Not so much from a Dev perspective, but tremendous on this crazy world of CRE", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "giohg4b", "text": "As others have said - ULI has some good property-type-specific books that I recall. \nMy go to response is if you really want definitive sources then simply go to various syllabus from higher education and see what texts are being taught. This is how you will come across RE Investments by Brueggeman, Land Dev Handbook,The Appraisal of Real Estate, and the like. \n\nOf course, that is my personal approach and we all learn different.  Good luck and keep learning!", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gitq43i", "text": "Books don\u2019t teach you anything, doing the work does", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gixm55v", "text": "Rethinking real estate", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "giz0zkk", "text": "Real Estate Development: Principles and Process by Mike E. Miles", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]