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The well-known and respected authorship team of Geltner and Miller bring you a new edition of what has become the undisputed and authoritative resource on commercial real estate investment. Streamlined and completely updated with expanded coverage of corporate and international real estate investment, this upper-level text presents the essential concepts, principles and tools for the analysis of commercial real estate (income producing) from an investment perspective. This new book continues to integrate relevant aspects of urban and financial economics to provide users with a fundamental analytical understanding and application of real estate investments – now using ARGUS software. Contributing author Piet Eichholtz from the University of Maasstricht contributes an entire chapter that explores international real estate investments, both opportunistically and structurally, by outlining elements for developing and implementing real estate investments successfully abroad. Jim Clayton from the University of Cincinnati thoroughly revised and updated the finance coverage and real-life applications throughout. Geltner and Miller enhance their pedagogy by adding in a discussion of the real options application to real estate development and streamlining the discussion of data returns.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30202 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 880 pages

From the Back Cover
This book presents the essential concepts, principles, and tools for the analysis of commercial real estate from an investment perspective—integrating relevant aspects of urban and financial economics. It bridges the gap between mainstream finance and the current cutting edge of professional real estate practice with a look at asset market inefficiency and illiquidity, after-tax analysis for various types of investors, tax-exempt institutions, and private investment. Other chapter topics include periodic returns measurement, risk analysis, asset valuation, investment analysis, leverage, capital structure, portfolio theory, and option valuation theory. For individuals aware of the importance of real estate, and interested in its financial economic aspects.

About the Author
David Geltner is a professor at MIT where he is also Director of the Real Estate Center. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a Professor of Real Estate at the University of Cincinnati from 1989 through Spring, 2002. He specializes in the areas of real estate investments, urban economics, and the financial economics of the real estate industry. He has published extensively in leading academic journals, including Real Estate Economics (formerly The AREUEA Journal), The Journal of Urban Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Research, The Journal of Housing Economics, and The Journal of Property Research, among others. He serves on the editorial boards of the three leading US academic real estate journals (Real Estate Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and The Journal of Real Estate Research) and of the leading British journal (The Journal of Property Research). He is a co-managing editor of a leading real estate research journal, Real Estate Economics for AREUEA. He serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Real Estate Research Institute, a research promotion and funding agency sponsored by the leading real estate investment firms. Dr. Geltner has consulted for leading real estate investment advisory firms including serving on the Board of Ohio based STRS.

Norman G. Miller has been the Director of the Real Estate Program at the University of Cincinnati since 1981 when he launched a new real estate program, and holder of the West Shell, Jr. Professorship in real estate since 1988. He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1977, after which he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia until 1981. During 1985-86 he was the Visiting Chairholder at the University of Hawaii. He is active on the Editorial Board of several nation/international, journals including The Journal of Real Estate Research, The Journal of Real Estate Literature, Journal of Property Finance, The Journal of Real Estate Education, and was Co-Managing Editor of Real Estate Finance for several years with David Geltner. Currently, he is the president-elect of the American Real Estate Society.

Dr. Miller is a prolific writer and scholar with numerous academic articles, books, and trade market publications. Aside from managing REIT mutual fund, he has consulted for developers, investors and with several national data firms on market analysis techniques and project feasibility. He is the primary instructor for the national NAIOP program on 'Developing in the 21st Century' and a Distinguished Fellow with NAIOP. He has worked extensively with various trade associations including the National Association of Realtors, the Urban Land Institute, BOMA, CCIM, NNCREW, AIREA, NACORE, NAIOP, and NAHB. As a Homer Hoyt Lan Use Institute Faculty member, he is involved with some premier though leaders among academics and industry professionals in a think tank setting for annual conferences on real estate issues and trends. Dr. Miller also developed the popular national and international web site www.real-jobs.com free to students to post resumes for any commercial real estate are or to search for jobs.

Jim Clayton is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati where he teaches courses in real estate finance, investment and development. He received his Ph.D. in Urban Land Economics in 1994 from the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of British Columbia. He also has an MA degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario (1988) and an Honours BA in Economics from Queen's University (1987). Jim serves on the editorial board of Real Estate Economics and the advisory board of the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI). Awards and honors include the Journal of Property Research best paper at the 2005 European Real Estate Society meetings, best paper in the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management in 2001, best paper in real estate valuation at the 1996 American Real Estate Society meeting, four research grants from the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI), and a Homer-Hoyt Institute post-doctoral fellowship in 2000. His articles have appeared in Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, Journal of Property Research, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Canadian Investment Review and Real Estate Finance. Professor Clayton created and is the lead instructor for an Advanced Real Estate Finance course offered through the National Association of Office and Industrial Properties (NAIOP). He has also taught professional development courses in Real Estate Finance and Capital Markets at the MIT Center for Real Estate and for PriceWaterhouseCoopers Real Estate Group.

Piet Eichholtz is Professor of Real Estate Finance and chair of the Finance Department at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He teaches courses in Finance and in Real Estate Finance and Investments. His practical experience includes positions at the ABP and NIB Capital, and non-executive board memberships of property investment companies NSI and Oppenheim Immobilien Kapitalanlagengeselschaft. Eichholtz has also earned a solid reputation as an entrepreneur. In 1996 he started Global Property Research, an international consultancy firm specialized in property companies, which was acquired by Kempen & Co in 2001. After leaving Kempen in 2004, he became co-founder of Finance Ideas, a financial consultancy company. He is currently a member of the Advisory Boards of Redevco and the RO Group, of the Investment Committees of Blue Sky Group and Servatius, and of the Housing Scenario Group of Bouwfonds.

Eichholtz has provided extensive services to public society, mainly through board memberships of industry organizations in the property sector, but also as an advisor to various government agencies. In early 2004, he was a special property advisor to the UN Good Offices Mission on Cyprus, and he has consulted with the Dutch ministry of housing on several occasions. He has been on the board of the ROZ-IPD Commercial Property Index foundation, and is currently the chairman of the board of the AEDEX-IPD Dutch Social Housing Index foundation. Eichholtz' academic work has resulted in a great number of publications, both in the Netherlands and internationally. Most of his work regards real estate markets, with a focus on international investment, portfolio management and housing markets.

Customer Reviews

Great text - solid presentation - just undertand its focus
I think this is a wonderful text. However, let me state up front this is NOT a general book about real estate as an investment vehicle in the broad sense. It is a text that provides the knowledge and techniques to ANALYZE commercial real estate as a financial investment. So, yes, the book is heavy on financial analysis and the many way markets and techniques that exist for investing in commercial real estate.

You won't learn a thing about how to pick or manage properties. Those are topics for other books and courses. This great book does have a rather specific focus, but it needs that because the topic it does cover is so large and there is a great deal to learn.

I find the book to be clearly written with the bare minimum of mathematics to make the content extremely valuable. Because the authors have a practical focus the reader is not overwhelmed or bogged down in abstruse topics or arcane formulae.

The book has thirty chapters grouped into eight parts. The eight parts are 1) Into to real estate economics, 2) Urban economics and real estate analysis, 3) Basic financial economic concepts and tools, 4) Real estate valuation and investment analysis at the microlevel, 5) Completing the basic investment analysis picture, 6) Mortgages from an investment perspective, 7) Macrolevel real estate investment, 8) Real estate development and other selected topics.

From this list of topics you can understand the nature of this book. If these are issues you are interested in I think you will find this book really delivers the goods and I am glad to have on my shelf of valued business texts.

You better KNOW you care about commercial real estate
Commercial real estate is not for the faint of heart. I have been in residential real estate for a while and have on several occasions dealt with commercial real estate folks and issues surrounding it.

On the plus side, if you are looking for an exhaustive source of information on evaluating commercial real estate, you have arrived. This volume is going to give you all the information you need to analyze any situation to death. Perhaps to the point that small bits of brain dribble out your ear.

If your a dabbler... or someone who has thought, "Gee... I wonder if commercial real estate would be interesting to get into?" then this is NOT the place for you to start that journey of self discovery.

There are much smaller, shorter, lighter more digestible books out there on the subject that will give you a feel for what you might be getting into.

So, if you are someone already knee deep in commercial real estate, or someone deadly serious about being able to really analyze commercial properties, then this one is for you.

The Best Real Estate Text I've Ever Read
This book is not for the faint-hearted or for readers who want to skim a few paragraphs and then think they'll get rich quick.

If you read this book, chapter by chapter, and do the exercises at the end of each one, you'll probably know more about Real Estate Finance than many people in Real Estate boardrooms. This will take a few weeks as a minimum, but it will have immense value.

The writers Geltner and Miller really choose to go "in-depth" with each topic, almost to the point of annoyance when you're reading it, but afterwards you realize why, and importantly, realize what you've learned by doing it.

This book is immensely valuable, and requires some work to achieve that value. It's value will be with you permanently however, because you will have absorbed the true principals of what's going on it real estate and the associated financial markets, and not just have memorized some glib cookbook answers which many people may instead be hoping for.

This is a book for thinkers and practicioners who want carry lasting value with them.