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This textbook brings together three important aspects of property investment - strategies for investment, markets and appraisal - and explains many difficult concepts in a readable and understandable way. The authors outline the developments in investment and finance theory that have had such an impact on the property investment sector. Concepts are explained with great clarity and worked examples are used to elucidate key principles where possible. This book is ideal for modules taught on third year undergraduate and postgraduate level in Property Investment, Property Funding, Property Management Estate Management, Land Management, Planning and Development Studies, Land Economics, Real Estate (value and management) and is also of interest to students of Architecture, Construction and Surveying. New to this Edition: - Thoroughly updated to reflect changes in government policy on sustainability, assessing the implications of sustainability for both residential and commercial property investment - Reflections on the reverberations of the credit crunch, considering the extent to which risk reduction techniques can mitigate against globally induced and volatile market swings - Greater prominence given to the growth of the buy-to-let market in residential property investment - A review of the key investment performance issues which have arisen from the introduction of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - Includes more worked examples and case studies

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DAVID ISAAC is a Chartered Surveyor and is currently Professor of Real Estate Management and Director of Research and Enterprise in the School of Architecture and Construction at the University of Greenwich, UK. He has some twenty years of experience in property development, finance and valuation and has project-managed a number of development schemes. JOHN O'LEARY is Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich School of Architecture and Construction. He is a Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Town Planner having worked as a planning consultant prior to becoming a lecturer.

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