This leading collegiate text is great for business electives or required courses in a real estate certificate or degree program. Each chapter can be treated as a stand-alone learning module, making it easy for instructors to incorporate the material into their courses. Real Estate Today Close Ups, Legal Highlights, and Case Studies help clarify difficult topics and keep students engaged. Mastering the concepts of this book support a better-informed real estate market participant, whether the primary real estate interests lie in consumption, investment, brokerage, appraisal, law, property and asset management, or any combination of these disciplines.

Key Benefits:
• The Key Terms discussed in each chapter appear in boldface for emphasis. These terms are succinctly defined in the end-of-book Glossary.
• Many tables, figures, and photographs are provided throughout the text to help you visualize the topics and incorporate them in their knowledge base.
• Thought-provoking review exercises are provided at the end of each chapter.
• Suggested reading lists for each chapter are included to additional sources of information, including books, academic journals, practitioner journals, newspapers, magazines, and Internet sites.