Best books on CRE?
I work in investment sales and am always looking for suggestions on interesting books related to real estate. Fire away
[{"id": "fmjowwc", "text": "I tend to like stories about CRE. What it takes by Stephen Schwarzman is pretty good.  I love Am I Being Too Subtle by Sam Zell. Raising the Bar by Gerald Hines is decent as well.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fmjpqgp", "text": "Well. Don't know if you are looking for an informational book, or more on the entertainment side, but the textbook: **\"Real Estate Finance and Investments\" By Peter Linneman** is one of the bibles of CRE for investors / bankers /etc.\n\nDr. Linneman is the founder of the Real Estate program at Wharton and many of the top schools use his book.\n\nAnother RE class I took used these books:\n\n**Timing the Real Estate Market by Craig Hall** was fairly readable as well.\n\n**The Real Estate Game by William J Poorvu** I haven't read it yet, but a real estate professor I really liked recommended it to me, so I figured I'd pass it on here.\n\n&amp;#x200B;\n\nAll of these books were used in graduate school classes, so they are less entertaining stories and more functional knowledge books, but maybe you'd be into one of them.", "replies": [{"id": "fmjs5t2", "text": "Yes, thank you I am looking for both. Looking for stories, knowledge books, or any combination of both. Not much else to do these days figure I might as well read up", "replies": [{"id": "fmonrkc", "text": "Yeah. Lol.\n\nI'm also about to be between jobs soon (leaving design-side and taking a CRE position in July) so using the time I would have been travelling to instead finally pick up my ARGUS cert and starting to study for the Well AP (can't take the test until this is all over though.... Prometric should roll out a test-from-home product...)", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "fmlee6h", "text": "The Real Estate Game is educational but not technical. I recommend it!", "replies": [{"id": "fmoniiz", "text": "Good to know! I'll bump it up a few places on my reading list then! Thanks!", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fmjtsyj", "text": "Finance for Shopping Center Non-financial Professionals (which might not be as helpful since you're in investment sales already) and The Business of Shopping Center Law are really good ones. Getting Retail Right is an easy read but a good primer, too.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fmjvh2r", "text": "Brokers Who Dominate by Rod Santomassimo", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fmjwdaw", "text": "Another book I recommend is\n\nReal Estate Finance &amp; Investments\n\nAuthor: Brueggeman, William B.; Fisher, Jeffrey / ISBN: 9781260921038\n\nit's a grad textbook but found it very useful to build a basis. Easy to understand", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fmky3dj", "text": "Winning Through Intimidation by Robert Ringer, which is more about not being intimidated and is structured around the author's early rise in CRE.\n\nThe later rewrite, To Be Or Not To Be Intimidated, is a little watered down.", "replies": [{"id": "fmll3ki", "text": "This is a great book.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fml33d4", "text": "Value add by Brad Umansky", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fmn08vh", "text": "If you read Tom Wolfe\u2019s \u201cMan in Full\u201d you will get an eye opening description of the life of an Atlanta developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The book is based on Tommy Cousins the founder of Cousins Properties. Great depiction of a loan workout in the story.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fmuhwbu", "text": "Here's an interesting one that most people have never heard about: \"**Towers of Debt\" by Peter Foster**. \n\nIt talks about the rise and collapse of one of the largest privately owned real estate investment firm in the world in the 80s and 90s (Olympia &amp; York). They're the ones who built Canary Wharf in London and what is now known as Brookfield Place in NYC. Great book to read to understand how things can go wrong in a blink when everything seems to be going great.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]