Here are the best selling real estate books from Amazon.com:
1. Shift: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times, by Gary Keller
2. The Real Book of Real Estate: Real Experts. Real Stories. Real Life. By Robert T. Kiyosaki
3. The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: It’s Not About the Money … It’s About Being the Best You Can Be! By Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, and Jay Papasan
4. The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Debt Crisis of 2010-2012, by Harry S. Dent Continue reading »
By Melissa Dittmann Tracey
Here are the latest top selling books in real estate from Amazon.com:
1. The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It, By Robert J. Shiller
2. Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis, By Paul Muolo and Mathew Padilla
3. Financial Shock A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis, By Mark Zandi
4. Rich Dad’s Advisors®: The ABC’s of Real Estate Investing: The Secrets of Finding Hidden Profits Most Investors Miss, By Ken McElroy
5. Real Estate Investing for Dummies , By Eric Tyson and Robert S. Griswold
6. The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor’s Kit: How to Make M Buying Distressed Real Estate — Before the Public Auction, By Thomas Lucier
7. Home Buying For Dummies, 3rd edition, By Eric Tyson and Ray Brown
8. SHIFT: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times, By Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, and Jay Papasan
9. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition, By Marc Reisner
10. Complete Guide to Real Estate Tax Liens and Foreclosure Deeds: Learn in 7 Days-Investing Without Losing Series , By Don Sausa
By Melissa Dittmann Tracey
Here are the latest top selling books in real estate from Amazon.com:
1. The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It 
2. The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It (Kindle Edition)
3. Rich Dad’s Advisors®: The ABC’s of Real Estate Investing: The Secrets of Finding Hidden Profits Most Investors Miss (Rich Dad’s Advisors)
4. The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor’s Kit: How to Make Money Buying Distressed Real Estate — Before the Public Auction
5. Home Buying For Dummies, 3rd edition
6. Real Estate Investing for Dummies
7. Real Estate Finance & Investments (Real Estate Finance and Investments)
8. SHIFT: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times
9. Financial Shock: A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis
10. What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know about Cash Flow… And 36 Other Key Financial Measures
By Melissa Dittmann Tracey
Heather Oberhau
Favorite Pick: Sell with Soul: Creating an Extraordinary Career in Real Estate Without Losing Your Friends, Your Principles or Your Self-Respect, by Jennifer Allan
“Jennifer is such a nice change from the regular ‘numbers game’ authors. Her message is simple: be good at what you do and spend time and keep in contact with your SOI. No need for begging for referrals, they’ll come naturally.”
—Heather Oberhau, e-PRO, Prudential Fox & Roach REALTORS®, www.SoldbyHeather.Blogspot.com
Favorite pick: I’ve Heard it All and so Should You: Confessions of a Real Estate Columnist, by Edith Lank
“There are not many real estate books that tickle the funny bone as much … while consistently revealing human nature at its best (and worst), as well as a confirming the general lack of knowledge about most things related to residential real estate as does I’ve Heard It All And So Should You: Confessions of a Real Estate Columnist by Edith Lank.”
—Jim Zirbes, a Phoenix real estate associate broker, writes on his blog, The Realty Blogger – Jim’s R.E. Journal.
Ann Grant
Favorite pick: The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, by Gary Keller
“This book gives you step by step tips to help enhance your career. If you are new to the business or have been in the business many years, this book can help you maintain your focus and become goal driven.”
—Ann Grant, SRES, Keller Williams Realty, White Plains, N.Y.,
www.AnnGrantRealty.com
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By Melissa Dittmann Tracey
Books on how to make big money from house-flipping aren’t exactly flying off the bookshelves these days, according to a recent article in The New York Times (A Shift in Real Estate Books, by Joanne Kaufman, June 9, 2008) about how the slowdown in the real estate market is affecting book sales.
Once popular how-to books about reselling hot properties for quick cash are being replaced by how-to books on avoiding foreclosure and rebounding from real estate investing mistakes. Continue reading »
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