Shopping Centers and Other Retail Properties: Investment, Development, Financing, and Management - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471040029 ISBN 13: 9780471040026

Publisher: Wiley, 1996

Synopsis

Shopping centers and other forms of retail properties continue tobe among the soundest real estate investments in North America. Butretail property is a highly specialized field of real estatedevelopment with a unique and complex set of legal, financial,development, management, and marketing variables about whichinvestors and developers must possess a sound working knowledge.Now this book arms with you with that knowledge, and muchmore.

The most comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date resource of itskind, Shopping Centers and Other Retail Properties covers everyvital aspect of negotiating, buying, selling, developing, managing,and marketing shopping centers and other retail properties. EditorsJohn R. White and Kevin D. Gray, of the leading real estateconsulting firm Landauer Associates, and an all-star team ofexperts in the field of shopping center and retail propertydevelopment, share everything they know about:
* All important legal issues
* Investment and feasibility analysis
* Valuation requirements and performance measures
* Planning, designing, and renovating retail properties
* Developing and investing in local and community shopping centers,highway retail centers, and regionals and super regionals
* Operating and managing retail centers
* Mortgage financing and financing through public and privateequity issues
* Space marketing and lease terms
* Macro and micro market analysis
* And much more

Shopping Centers and Other Retail Properties is an indispensableworking resource for both new and experienced retail propertyinvestors and developers as well as those who work with them,including attorneys, accountants, analysts, appraisers, planners,managers, brokers, and consultants.

"Timely insights into an industry undergoing tremendous change."--

For both newcomers and seasoned professionals in retail propertyinvestment, this book provides a wealth of vital information onevery aspect of developing and managing shopping centers and retailproperties. Written by an all-star team of specialists in thefield, Shopping Centers and Other Retail Properties:
* Provides expert guidance on financing, developing, operating, andmanaging shopping centers and other retail properties
* Covers analysis of retail market demand, investment andfeasibility analysis, appraisal, mortgage financing, financing byequity, new planning formats, and much more
* Serves as an indispensable working resource for investors,developers, attorneys, accountants, analysts, appraisers, planners,managers, brokers, and consultants

"An authoritative work that will be immensely useful to anyoneinterested in retail real estate." --

"Retail developments have become the key investments now targetedin real estate. No two people have commanded more respect forexpertise than this book's editors. There are many, many booksattempting to guide readers in this field. In my experienced view,none compares to the excellence and usefulness of this text." --

About this title

From the Publisher:

A concise, comprehensive volume authored by prominent specialists in the field of shopping centers. Contains all the essential background aspects of shopping centers, retail properties and the evolutionary approaches used in their development and management. Coverage includes new planning formats, appraisal, mortgage financing, analyzing and retail market demand.

About the Author:

About the editors

JOHN R. WHITE, MAI, CRE, held an AB degree from Harvard and an MBAin marketing and real estate from New York University. He was thelong-term president, chairman and chief executive officer ofLandauer Associates, Inc., New York, an international real estateconsulting firm. He acted as a consulting intermediary in thepurchase or sale of the former Pan Am Building in New York,L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C., and the Bank of the Southwestin Houston, and he arranged $500 million in financing for theGeneral Motors Building in New York. John White was a board memberof 10 real estate, banking, insurance, and development companiesand received a dozen awards from civic and trade associations forhis contributions to real estate. He was the author of over 100published articles on real estate finance, investment, andvaluation, and wrote or contributed to four books. He was Editor inChief and contributing author of The Office Building: From Conceptto Investment Reality. He died on March 29, 1995, shortly aftercompletion of his work on this book.

KEVIN D. GRAY, CRE, is Senior Vice President of Landauer Associatesin New York, with 17 years of experience in investment consulting,retail planning, and architecture. He specializes in strategyconsulting and research for foreign and domestic pension funds,institutions, investment banks, and developers. Kevin Gray holds anMA in finance from the Yale School of Management, and BA and MAdegrees in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He isa registered architect in Connecticut and a certified appraiser innumerous states. He is the author of several articles on realestate topics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0471040029
• ISBN 13: 9780471040026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: White John R., Gray Kevin D.