Information Technology Strategies or Real Estate Decisions

Information Technology Strategies: How Leading Firms Use IT to Gain an Advantage

Author: William V Rapp

The focus of this book is to educate the reader on the strategic principles fundamental to using information technology to gain market control. It provides case examples of how to use IT to enhance existing core competencies and strategies. The book is designed to help managers struggling with how to advantageously harness the new information revolution. It can also support executive and business education programs on managing technology when few such studies exist. While Internet and information technologies are currently hot topics many firms and executives are without the tools and know-how of how to actually use them to improve results. Some major firms have sophisticated strategies for using information technology to impact, control and even own their competitive environments. This book describes how major non-information technology companies are doing this and the strategic principles employed.

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Real Estate Decisions

Author: Don Epley

This book introduces the fundamentals of real estate in a need-to-know, decision-making format, covering related topics such as commercial lending, development, and future trends in the real estate market. The viewpoint is that of the consumer who is the prospective buyer, seller, or real estate agent. Technology (Internet activities, Excel activities, etc.) is integrated into the chapters and activities to enhance its relevance.

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This textbook provides students of real estate with information needed to make real estate decisions. Topics are discussed in the order in which the typical consumer encounters them in a real estate transaction, with legal concepts integrated throughout the text. Coverage includes urban economics, valuation, property appraisal, mortgages, commercial loans, sales contracts, leases, deeds, title insurance, and settlement. The volume does not contain bibliographical references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

I. THE DECISION TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT REAL ESTATE. 1. The Real Estate Commodity in a Legal Environment. 2. Public and Private Controls on the Use of Real Property. 3. Urban Economics and the Real Estate Market. II. THE DECISION TO ESTIMATE MARKET VALUE. 4. Valuation. 5. Residential Property Appraisal. 6. Income Property Appraisal. 7. Real Estate Market Analysis. III. THE DECISION TO FINANCE THE TRANSACTION. 8. Mortgages in Borrowed Capital. 9. Financing Single-Family Homes. 10. Commercial Loans and Lease Analysis. IV. THE DECISION TO INVEST IN THE PROPERTY. 11. Real Estate Equity Investment. 12. Taxation of the Real Estate Investment. V. THE DECISION TO BUY OR SELL THE PROPERTY. 13. Agency and the Real Estate Agent. 14. Contracts and the Sales Contract. VI. THE DECISION TO MANAGE THE PROPERTY AND SEEK INFORMATION ABOUT THE LEASE. 15. Real Estate Management and the Lease. VII. THE DECISION TO ACQUIRE OR TRANSFER THE PROPERTY. 16. Deed, Title, Insurance, and Settlement. VIII. THE DECISION TO DEVELOP THE PROPERTY. 17. Real Estate Development. CONCLUSION. Trends in the Real Estate Industry. GLOSSARY. INDEX.