Real Estate - Summer group assignment in LGRE

Hi,

Just got my summer group assignment into Leisure, Gaming, and Real Estate (LGRE).

What should I read up on do I don't look like a douche? Any specific magazines besides WSJ?

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might be a good idea to understand the basics of real estate finance... basic DCF, but real estate specific terminology. "real estate finance and investment" by peter linneman (http://www.linnemanassociates.com/textbook.html) was very helpful for me. he was my real estate prof at wharton and i thought the book was self-teaching and easy to follow (meaning, if you have some time and determination, you can teach yourself the concepts that you'll most likely come across this summer).

good luck this summer!

below is a brief description from the site:

This book is an exploration of the key concepts of real estate finance and investment strategy. It is not a mere formulaic analysis of numbers designed to give you "the answer" to any and all real estate investment decisions. Instead, this book is designed to help you understand that there is no singular or simplistic answer to any real estate finance problem. Rather, real estate finance is fundamentally driven by judgment and experience, with an eye to the numbers. The goal is to help you evaluate the risks and opportunities of real estate assets and investments, and will hopefully help you embark upon the long and unending road of strengthening your judgment.

Basic information on loan amortization, discounted cash flows, net present value, and IRR are presented in appendices. The text assumes that the reader has a mastery of these subjects. Extra supplementals are included to provide interesting information, but are not essential for the mastery of the chapters in the text.

The formulas and templates found in the book are intended to help its reader assemble and organize information. Understanding and mastering the tools included in the book is the beginning of real estate finance. This book focuses on what to do after you have mastered the basic financial tools. Just as knowing how to use a hammer and saw is not the same as building a wonderful building that will last the ages, knowing how to build a financial model and calculating the internal rate of for a spreadsheet is not the same as making a profitable real estate investment. Judgment comes one mistake at a time, and better to make some of those mistakes in this class than "in real life."

 

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