Examples & Explanations for Real Estate Planning and Development - Barlow Burke - Bog

"This book is intended for students in upper level, elective courses in real estate planning, finance, and transactions. It focus is on the development of new commercial real estate projects - office buildings and retail shopping projects. Its Chapters follow the sequence of development - acquiring a project site, negotiating the acquisition sales contract for it, choosing the entity to hold title to it, then taking title to it, hiring and dealing with architects and construction contractors, financing construction, finding permanent mortgage financing for it, dealing with equity investors, leasing the completed project and, when the time is right, exiting the project. Thus the text discusses the various persons and professionals who play a vital part in the development process and whom attorneys for developers should come to know, and, I hope, admire"--