Disciplines & Professions: Real Estate

Web Sites

Open Directory's Real Estate Directory
http://dmoz.org/Business/Real_Estate/

This site provides 1,500+ sites dealing with real estate and offers visitors an additional subject heading under which more information may be located online.

Search Engine Guide's Real Estate Links
http://www.searchengineguide.com/pages/Business/Real_Estate/

List of 30+ links to online real estate resources. Many links are annotated. Also allows search to cover an entire directory of search engines at once.

Print Resources

Abbott, Damien. Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms. 2nd ed. London: Delta Alpha, 2000.

Defines more than 8,000 terms commonly used in real estate. Organized alphabetically. Many entries include bibliographic references. Appendix A is a cumulative bibliography.

Cox, Barbara, Jerry Cox, and David Silver-Westrick. Dictionary of Real Estate. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.

Provides explanations for 3,000+ real estate terms. Includes 11 appendices of additional real estate information (e.g. mortgage payment table, forms of ownership, related Web sites).

Cummings, Jack. Real Estate, Finance, and Investment Manual. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.

A comprehensive source of information in the real estate and finance fields. Chapters are arranged topically. Includes an index.

Friedman, Jack P., Jack C. Harris, and J. Bruce Lindeman. Dictionary of Real Estate Terms. 3rd ed. New York: Barron's, 1993.

More than 3,000 definitions of terms and concepts. Also has entries for notable organizations. Many definitions are supplemented with an example to illustrate meaning.

Harris, Jack C., and Jack P. Friedman. Barron's Real Estate Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: Barron's, 1993.

Provides an overview of buying and selling homes, as well as real estate regulation. The majority of the book is an alphabetical glossary of real estate terms.

Irwin, Robert, ed. The McGraw-Hill Real Estate Handbook. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.

The 4 parts of this book cover real estate taxation, real estate business, finance, and buying and selling. Topical chapters are provided within these larger sections. An index is included.