Barron's Real Estate Handbook,9780764152634

Barron's Real Estate Handbook

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ISBN13: 9780764152634
ISBN10: 0764152637
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Summary

This huge compendium of information on virtually every aspect of real estate operations includes a dictionary of more than 2,000 real estate terms and definitions, illustrative legal and financial forms, up-to-date information on mortgages and tax law, advice on buying and selling both business and residential properties, understanding the role and functions of real estate agencies, architectural engineering and standards, architectural styles and details, zoning regulations, and much more. Financial tables provide quick-reference shortcuts to mortgage payments. Bibliography and line drawings. This valuable reference source belongs in every real estate office and on the personal book shelf of everybody in the business of buying and selling real estate.

Author Biography

Jack C. Harris, Ph.D., is on the faculty of the Real Estate Research Center at Texas AandM University, and is a research economist with an engineering and policy planning background. Jack P. Friedman, Ph.D., CPA, MAI, CRE, is currently a real estate consultant, and was formerly chair professor of the Real Estate Research Center and Department of Finance at Texas AandM University.

Table of Contents

Preface iv
Home Buyers Guide
1(19)
Home Sellers Guide
20(14)
Median Sales Prices of Existing Single-Family Homes 1992-1999
34(5)
Analyzing Real Estate Investment Opportunities
39(22)
Real Estate Investment Trusts, By Property Type and Size
61(13)
How To Read an Appraisal Report
74(11)
Federal Legislation and Regulations Affecting Real Estate
85(15)
Careers in Real Estate
100(20)
Glossary
120(437)
How to Use This Glossary Effectively
120(437)
Useful Real Estate References
557(33)
Tables
590(237)
Monthly Mortgage Payments
590(70)
Loan Progress Tables (Balance per $1,000 Original Loan)
660(26)
Mortgage Value Tables (Value of Amortizing Mortgage Loans as Percentage of Face Value)
686(49)
Premiums for Assumable Loans (Maximum Premiums for Assumble Loans as Percentage of Loan Balance)
735(44)
Discount Point Tables (Effective Annual Interest Rates on Loan Held to Maturity)
779(9)
Graduated-payment Mortgages (Monthly Payment per $1,000 of Principal)
788(3)
Depreciation Rates
791(5)
The Tax Reform Act of 1986
791(5)
Proration Percentages
796(3)
APPENDIX
Parts of a House
799(1)
Abbreviations
800(4)
Measurement Tables
804(23)
English System
804(1)
Metric System
805(1)
Equivalents Between English and Metric Systems
805(2)
Mathematical Formulas
807(1)
Real Estate Forms and Worksheets
808(19)
Index 827

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