BiggerPockets

are you talking about commercial, residential, spec building new homes, or major planned developments?
You need to understand the construction portion, the capital, and the zoning regs in your town. I think that most good developers have almost the same knowledge of zoning laws that an attorney might have.
Developing is a real team sport, contractors, gc, trades, zoning attorneys, capital management, sales people, leasing agents, ect.

Look on amazon for recent publications as laws and regs change frequently, however understand that they will all be very broad, and will more than likely not be able to address items specific to your area of the country.

Hey @Sean D I'm a huge fan of these books:

What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow...and 36 Other Key Financial Measures by Frank Gallinelli (Frank is also on the BP forum)

and

The Real Estate Game: The Intelligent Guide to Decision-making and Investment by William J. Poorvu

For text books, this book is one of the best:

Real Estate Finance and Investments by William Brueggeman and Jeffrey Fisher

Adrian also made a great point about checking out the ULI bookstore.

Hey @Kyle_Zaylor -- Thanks for the kind words about my book. I always wanted to rich and famous, but happy to settle for just famous ;)

And btw, I also recommend the Brueggeman and Fisher book to my students -- pretty much the classic r.e. finance text

--Frank

Good stuff everyone, buying your book Frank, looking forward to it. Roc

You will find tons of book on real estate in the market. Want to basic or everything related to real estate like construction, taxation etc.?

Good thread, buying all the books in here