Real Estate and Investment Books

Like every other skill or craft, becoming a master takes time. The best way to start that journey is to learn from some of the best in the field, which can be done through reading their work. The CREN Team has complied a list of what we believe are industry standard essential reading from both the textbook to the personal reading level. If you think something needs to be added, let us know!

Textbooks

• Real Estate Finance and Investments: Risks and Opportunities Edition 5.1, Dr. Peter Linneman and Bruce Kirsch 

• Real Estate Finance and Investments 16th Editions, William Brueggeman and Jeffrey Fisher

• Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment, Geltner and Miller

Real Estate Industry and Investment Books

• The Real Estate Game: The Intelligent Guide To Decision Making And Investment by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and William J. Poorvu

• What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow by Frank Gallinelli

• What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A. Schwarzman 

• The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks 

• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

• Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

• Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis

• King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone by David Carey and John E. Morris

• Hines: A Legacy of Quality in the Built Environment by Mark Seal

• Trammell Crow, Master Builder: The Story of America's Largest Real Estate Empire by Robert Sobel