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@Dan Vleck, when I see these lists pop up now an again, I am always disappointed to see what is on them as I have usually read all of the books they list. I promise you, you will not be disappointed in these books that I have listed, these are the books that the big players have on their book shelf. I have read over 300 real estate investment books over the years and these ones always stick out in my mind as the best, yet are never spoke about on these forms. 

-Hello Fellow Investors,

I wanted to make a list of the most influential books of my career. I believe these to be the BEST real estate books out there. I would love to hear other peoples favorites.

The books by Bob Jones may be hard to find as they are out of print and rare, but every once in awhile they pop up on Amazon or Ebay and are well worth the wait.

In no particular order, here goes;

The Autobiography of William Zeckendorf - William Zeckendorf

Investing In Retail Property - Gary Rappaport

Jones on Property - Sir Bob Jones

My Property World - Sir Bob Jones

The Peebles Principals - Donahue Peebles

Trammel Crow, Master Builder - Robert Sobel

Powerhouse Principals - Jorge Perez

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert A Caro

How I Turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate - William Nickerson

Let me know what you think.

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Was just throwing ideas around in my head and was wondering has anyone ever used or thought about using technical analysis to time the real estate market? Could you tweak something like MACD or the myriad of other metrices to time the real estate market? Is this something that would even work in the real estate market considering the non liquidity of the market? Example could you take data from census like housing starts and building permits, existing home sales, sales tax movements, housing market index, ect. and map it out like stock charts do, then use something similar to technical analysis as a predictor? Anyone use portfolio theory or value at risk? This is all just theory, but was curious what others think, and please don't hesitate to say it's a dumb idea, I'm really curious to see the consensus. 

Thanks