In 2022 the public was allowed for the first time inside Battersea Power Station, as it was relaunched as a multi-use shopping mall, entertainment destination and office complex. Prior to this, the much-loved brick cathedral had stood empty for over 30 years, a monumental ruin, beloved of film and album-cover-art directors. Yet behind the scenes there was always plenty going on. The building changed hands multiple times as developers staked their fortunes on it, and invariably lost. It was going to be a theme park. A museum of science and industry. A super-sized cinema complex. A home for the Cirque du Soleil. A new stadium for Chelsea football club. Michael Jackson wanted to buy it.

White Elephants and Flying Pigs explores the power station’s history, from conception and construction, through use and obsolescence, into its long years of stagnation. In this book, former workers, politicians, lords, architects, planners, entrepreneurs, urban explorers and makers of inflatable pigs tell the story of this brooding brick hulk. Ultimately, it’s a story about London and the city we would like it to be.

This comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methods of valuing real estate helps students to progress successfully from basic principles to a more sophisticated understanding. Taking a practically oriented rather than purely theoretical approach, this textbook enables you to undertake valuation calculations yourself. Experienced tutor and valuer Michael Blackledge demonstrates how the principles can be applied in professional practice in line with the requirements and guidance provided by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. The five traditional methods of valuation are outlined and the practical applications of the two main approaches, the comparison and investment methods, are fully explored. The use of discounted cash flow and quarterly in advance calculations, topics which have often been neglected elsewhere, are also explained. Complete with extensive further reading suggestions, a full range of worked examples, clear chapter summaries and additional online exercises, this book is essential for any student of real estate and its valuation.

It is now 25 years since the first edition of this book was written, and the objectives of the fifth edition remain the same as those of the first edition, that is to provide "an introduction to and general background reading for the subject of property valuation". It is directed not just at would be surveyors and valuers, but at all those who may be interested in getting an understanding of property valuation.

This new text provides a rigorous analysis of the economics of real estate markets. It goes beyond the often descriptive nature of much property market analysis to focus on important theoretical principles. Throughout, the emphasis is on making an often complex area as accessible and readable as possible, with each chapter containing a boxed summary and questions for self-testing or discussion.</P>

This book explains the process of property investment appraisal – estimating both the most likely selling price (market value) and the worth of property investments to individual or groups of investors (investment value). Valuations are important: they are used as a surrogate for transactions in the construction of investment performance and they influence investors and other market operators when transacting property. Valuations need to be trusted by their clients and valuers therefore need to produce rational and objective solutions. In a style that makes the theory as well as the practice of valuation accessible to students and practitioners, the authors provide a valuable critique of conventional valuation methods and argue for the adoption of more contemporary cash-flow methods. They explain how such valuation models are constructed and give useful examples throughout. The UK property investment market has been through periods of both boom and bust since the first edition of this text was produced in 1988 and the book includes examples generated by the different market states: for example, complex reversions, over-rented situations and leasehold examples are in ready supply and are examined fully by the authors. They have retained the book’s basic structure and thrust, setting out fundamental investment and appraisal theory in Part One of the book, but adding a new chapter on building and modelling cash flows as a precursor to the investment material in Part Three. The heart of the book remains the critical examination of market valuation models addressed in Part Two – it remains the case that no other book addresses this issue in detail.

Learn to analyze commercial real estate from an investment perspective with COMMERICAL REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS AND INVESTMENTS and its accompanying CD-ROM! Presenting the essential concepts, principles, and tools for the analysis of commercial real estate, this real estate text provides you with the tools you need to understand real estate investments in today's dynamic economy. Studying is made easy with the CD-ROM that provides expanded coverage as well as spreadsheet examples of methodologies, data used in exhibits, lecture slide notes, and answers to study questions.

Periodic worldwide economic turmoil over the last few decades has created an environment in which the degree of risk of investment assets is now an important factor in their evaluation. Real Estate Investment: A Capital Market Approach is the first text to examine the effect of such changes on real estate markets, taking an in-depth look at three major areas of financial and economic importance within the real estate profession: * The time value of money and the valuation of cash flows * Risk and return in real estate * Portfolio management Real Estate Investment: A Capital Market Approach is aimed primarily at students on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in property investment or finance and MBA real estate specialists. The text is also of interest to fund managers, property researchers and professional investment valuers.

《房地产经济学》全书内容共分为3篇：第1篇是总论；第2篇是房地产市场的微观经济学分析，集中探讨各分类房地产市场的微观机制，包括不同地点的住宅的价格决定、城市密度特征的演化、利润最大化的住宅开发密度的确定、商业和工业企业选址的决定因素、与工作人员居住所在地的关系、企业在空间上的集中化与分散化趋势、零售企业的选址等问题；第3篇着重阐述了对房地产市场的宏观研究，重点探讨房地产景气循环与周期、国际资本流动与房地产市场的关系、城市规划、城市土地利用与房地产市场的关系、政府政策对房地产市场的影响等。
《房地产经济学》主要是作为建设管理与房地产专业的研究生、本科生的教材，也可作为房地产行业的开发者、管理者和研究者的参考用书。

《REITs运作与管理:房地产企业融资上市图景》讲述了：REITs是近几年来中国房地产金融创新的热点议题，也是中国房地产企业和境内外投资者合作的重点。REITs自从1960年在美国诞生以来，现在已经在亚太地区得到广泛发展，REITs已经成为一种成熟的投资基金模式。REITs实质上是一种证券化的产业投资基金，通过发行股份或受益单位，收到社会大众投资者的资金，并委托专门的机构进行经营管理，且这种REITs的股份或受益单位在证券交易所挂牌交易。REITs不仅为房地产业的发展提供了除银行外的融资渠道，而且为投资者提供了具有稳定收入、风险较低的股权类投资产品。借鉴国际发展REITs产品的成功经验，从中国的实际情况出发，对开发适合我国证券市场和房地产行业发展需要的投资品种，具有重要的意义。

填补投资领域一块未开发的处女地，全面指导REITs投资。
拉夫尔·布洛克以一种清晰、直接和权威的方式，对投资于REITs的投资者开启了一扇视野宽广、风景优美的窗口。他全面地介绍了REITs的整个成长过程，鲜明地指出了它们的投资特性，强调了它们在多元化投资组合中的作用。我非常想把这本书推荐给那些正在考虑首次投资REITs投资者，同样也推荐给那些对REITs已经有所了解、并有过房地产股票投资经历的投资者。——史蒂文·A·韦克斯勒（美国国家房地产投资信托协会总裁兼首席执行官）
普通股票投资者常常把REITs看成房地产，而房地产投资者认为REITs是股票。本书作者以丰富的专业知识，创作了一部最全面和最具可读性的房地产投资信托著作，详细地解释了REITs这种新的资产种类，使REITs成为所有人都可以进入的投资领域。
本书的内容主要分为四部分：
第一部分，初识房地产投资信托。本部分是对房地产投资信托的导言，首先说明为什么房地产投资信托在众多多元化的投资组合里，是一种极好的投资方式；其次，我们将探讨房地产投资信托的本质，并熟悉房地产投资信托的运作及其特征；再次，我们将进一步说明房地产投资信托所拥的房地产的门类，并对各门类的投资特性进行逐一分析；最后将房地产投资信托与其他传统的投资方式进行比较，并描述房地产投资信托结构及其发展历史。
第二部分，历史和迷思。在这一部分，读者会发现房地产投资信托是一项非常迷人的投资，想知道什么这些公司实力雄厚、拥有强大的盈利能力，却在房地产投资信托的发展历史上鲜为人知吗？本部分回答了这个问题，并且揭开了关于房地产投资信托的一些迷思。
第三部分，选择房地产投资信托并关注其成长。这部分为投资者提供了了解房地产投资信托的收入和盈利增长机制所需要的基本工具，在各种房地产投资信托普通股中挑选出蓝筹股来，并且在房地产投资信托股票中发现投资获利机会，本部分也将涉及以适当的多元化手段构建房地产投资信托投资组合的核心问题。
第四部分，风险及房地产投资信托的前景。本部分对投资者进入房地产投资信托这一投资领域可能面临的风除进行了必要的讨论，最后对房地产投资信托未来地增长，以及如何从未来发展趋势中获得收益进行了一些预测。

该论文集内容包括以下三个方面：一是房地产数据采集方面的相关研究及经验，如原始数据的获取、数据采集的标准等；二是房地产价格指数编制的经验，以及各国编制房地产市场指数的方法、应用领域及优劣势比数；三是房地产与金融、经济之间的关系问题研究成果，房地产泡沫破灭对国家金融、经济的强烈影响作用研究，以及各国在监测房地产市场方面的经验。总体来讲，该论文集既有理论深度，又联系房地产市场发展实际；既有房地产指标设计模型，又有编制指标的实践经验；既有中央银行等政策制定部门的观点，又有院校、独立研究机构的最新成果；既总结西方发达国家发展房地产市场的经验教训，又反映亚洲新兴市场国家房地产市场现状。
该论文集具有重要的研究和借鉴价值，是作者以及对房地产市场感兴趣人士的理想读物和重要参考书。

这是一部关于将要主宰中国楼市和股市的投资工具——房地产投资信托——的书。该书介绍的这种投资信托，会改变中国房地产投资和中国股市，它将房地产与股票真正整合为一体。投资REITs，就是投资某个商场、某幢写字楼、某家服务式公寓或是它们的组合，其收益直接来源于这些商业地产。自20世纪60年代问世以来，其在短短40多年时间里的发展大大超出人们的想像。从全球范围看，房地产投资信托已经成为各国资本市场上最稳定的金融工具之一，目前仅在美国就有200多家房地产投资信托上市公司。中国的投资者有必要通过此书尽快了解这个重要的投资工具，规避地产泡沫风险，获得稳定收益。

《房地产投资信托(REITs)法律制度研究》从比较法与经济分析两个视角，对房地产投资信托(REITs)法律制度的基本原理、设立机制、运作机制、风险规避机制和终止机制进行了剖析。谋略在比较其他国家和地区REITs制度的利弊得失基础上，探索并提出中国房地产投资信托(C-REITs)的构建方案。

《房地产投资基金实务(第2版)》是我国第一本由具有丰富海内外工作经验和深厚理论知识的资深人士撰写的房地产投资基金实务书籍，它的最大特点在于结合了作者十多年来直接参与房地产投资基金的实践和研究，所以它具有显著的针对性、应用性和可操作性。对目前我国的房地产个人投资者、房地产机构投资者（信托公司、保险公司、基金公司和投资公司）及房地产公司普遍关注的议题－－房地产投资基金进行了较详尽的介绍和阐述，其中包括通过介绍国外地产投资基金一般的运作模式及其在中国市场的成功案例所展开的深入讨论，内容翔实、立论严谨、深入浅出，从专业的深度和广度表达出房地产和金融业在中国运作的现实和未来发展。
《房地产投资基金实务(第2版)》能为房地产和金融专业人士、房地濶公司和机构投资者提供较完整和及时的知识、意见及实用价值，同时能提升广大个人投资者及一般大众对房地产投资基金的兴趣和关注。

《中国房地产金融制度创新研究:基于REITs理论的探讨》是近几年来我在房地产金融创新方面研究和思考的成果。2003-2006年间，我在同济大学攻读博士学位时，就选择了房地产金融作为自己的研究方向。毕业之后，我仍然继续在这一领域的研究，同时在学校开展房地产金融课程的教学。随着研究的不断深入、我国房地产金融形势的不断发展，我对中国房地产金融制度创新问题也有了更深人的认识，《中国房地产金融制度创新研究:基于REITs理论的探讨》正是近几年我对这一问题思考和认识的集中体现。
《中国房地产金融制度创新研究:基于REITs理论的探讨》即将出版之际，我要感谢导师尹伯成教授，在近两年的研究中，尹老师给予我悉心的指点，倾注了大量的心血，使我对房地产金融问题的认识和理解上升到新的高度。导师渊博的学识、严谨的学术风范、高尚的道德修养、对学生的仁爱宽厚，使本人终身难忘。