The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground Control London is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK. Despite the desperate shortage of housing, tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of affordable homes are being pulled down, replaced by luxury apartments aimed at foreign investors. In this ideological war, housing is no longer considered a public good. Instead, only market solutions are considered - and these respond to the needs of global capital, rather than the needs of ordinary people. In politically uncertain times, the housing crisis has become a key driver creating and fuelling the inequalities of a divided nation. Anna Minton cuts through the complexities, jargon and spin to give a clear-sighted account of how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it.

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Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and real estate developer. As Samuel Stein makes clear in this tightly argued book, its through seemingly innocuous profession of city planners that we can best understand the transformations underway. Planners provide a window into the practical dynamics of urban change: the way the state uses and is used by organized capital, and the power of landlords and developers at every level of government. But crucially, planners also possess some of the powers we must leverage if we ever wish to reclaim our cities from real estate capital.

What if you could consistently bring in $5,000 to $50,000 in real estate cash flow every month? Would you change the way you live your life? Every year, thousands of Americans do just that, using real estate to achieve the wealth and independence they've always dreamed of. In "The Real Estate Fast Trac"k, author David Finkel offers step-by-step guidance on building a real estate business that lets you earn more while you work less You'll master all five of the core skills of the world's wealthiest investors and learn the advanced secrets that have helped Finkel's students and clients buy and sell over $1 billion of real estate, much of it without cash or credit. You'll build your real estate business until you can relax and watch the money flow in.

Plus, there's more: Six forms of leverage you can tap intoFive fun, easy systems to find deal after dealA simple, three-step system for safely evaluating any real estate dealTwenty-one advanced deal-structuring strategies to close even the toughest dealFourteen advanced negotiating techniques to make up to an extra $25,000 per dealTen contract pitfalls that trip up most investorsUsing true stories from real people to illustrate the basics of successful investing, this practical, step-by-step guide presents the kind of proven, reality-based advice you need to live the life of your dreams--with all the money and free time you want

"Naysayers look out "The Real Estate Fast Track" discloses step-by-step strategies that practically guarantee immediate cash flow, no matter what the real estate market does. This stuff works."
--Diane Kennedy, bestselling coauthor of "The Insider's Guide to Making Money in Real Estate" and author of "Loopholes of the Rich"

"This book is just like David: clear, organized, and intelligent with an easygoing style. The valuable information within is actually a blueprint or how-to manual on producing your own passive cash flowing real estate investment business WOW, what an achievement "
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David Finkel is one of the nation's leading real estate experts. He is the coauthor of several books, including the Wiley titles "Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit" and "How to Retire Fast Investing in Commercial Real Estate," as well as the "Wall Street Journal" and "BusinessWeek" bestseller "Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosures Without Cash or Credit." Over the past decade, Finkel's clients have bought and sold over $1 billion of real estate.

Bauwerke entstehen in der Fantasie der Architekten und durch die Leistungen der Handwerker. Fur ein stabiles Fundament ist ein fester Grund und Boden notwendig. Eine ebenso wichtige Rolle spielt die solide Finanzierung der gesamten Immobilie, damit sie nicht ein Luftschloss bleibt oder auf Sand gebaut wird. Damit deutet sich ansatzweise die Vielfalt der Immobilienwirtschaft an, die tatsachlich noch viel breiter und tiefer ausgepragt ist. Kaum jemand kann das gesamte Wissensspektrum rund um Immobilien vollumfanglich abdecken. Fur ein erfolgreiches Arbeiten ist daher, neben einer spezifischen Qualifikation, ein fundiertes Grundwissen uber alle Themenfelder der Immobilienwirtschaft unverzichtbar. Diese Sammlung von Grundbegriffen hilft, einen qualifizierten Einblick in die Welt der professionellen Immobilienfinanzierung zu erhalten, ohne dabei den letzten Winkel auszuleuchten. Aus diesem Grund sind die Erlauterungen in diesem Buch nicht rein" wissenschaftlich formuliert, sondern entsprechen vielmehr dem lebendigen Sprachgebrauch der Fachleute."

New Economic Thinking and Real Estate offers a modern and distinctive approach to forecasting and understanding property markets. With this book, students will develop an intuitive ability to interpret economic indicators and acquire the confidence to assess property markets. The book is divided into three parts: Part A: Resource choices - deals with microeconomics; Part B: Financial Systems - seeks to make sense of the macroeconomic scene and Part C: Measuring and Forecasting.

Focusing on Chicago's West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks' behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned. American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long showed little compunction in aiding and abetting blockbusting, discrimination, and outright theft from nonwhites. They denied funds to entire neighborhoods or actively exploited them, to the benefit of suburban whites-an economic white flight to sharpen the pain caused by the demographic one. And yet, the dynamic between banks and urban communities was not static, and positive urban development, supported by banks, became possible. In After Redlining, Rebecca K. Marchiel illuminates how, exactly, urban activists were able to change some banks' behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned. The leading activists arose in an area hit hard by banks' discriminatory actions and politics: Chicago's West Side. A multiracial coalition of low- and moderate-income city residents, this Saul Alinsky-inspired group championed urban reinvestment. And amazingly, it worked: their efforts inspired national action, culminating in the federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and the Community Reinvestment Act. While the battle for urban equity goes on, After Redlining provides a blueprint of hope.

Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Erneuerbaren Energien und speziell zur Windenergie gibt es mittlerweile eine ganze Menge. In diesem Buch wird das Thema aber zugleich benutzt, um die Innovationsforschung und die Politikana- se ein ganzes Stuck voran zu treiben. Das Neue und hoechst Lesenswerte an der Arbeit von Doerte Ohlhorst ist die exemplarische Anwendung und die Weiterentwicklung der "Konstellationsa- lyse". Dass politische Steuerung, die Innovationen bewirken und deren Diffusion umsetzen will, von der Art und "Konfiguration" der beteiligten Akteure abhangt, ist dabei der Ausgangspunkt. Die Verfasserin will mit der Darstellung dieses - folgreichen Innovationsprozesses zum einen zeigen, "in welche Konstellationen die Nischentechnologie der Windenergie jeweils eingebettet war". Zum anderen soll die "Dynamik des Innovationsprozesses" unter dem Aspekt der Steuerung systematisch im Hinblick auf typische Ablaufe analysiert werden. Das Problem der Innovationsforschung ist ja die extreme Vielfalt moeglicher Einflussfaktoren und deren Veranderung im Zeitverlauf. Da bietet eine Methode Vorteile, die eine Differenzierung des Entwicklungsprozesses (Phasentypen) - moeglicht und damit die strukturierte Analyse von Handlungskontext und - teurskonstellation verbindet. Die Autorin bietet dabei nichts weniger als ein F- schungsdesign fur die empirische Analyse technologischer Innovationsprozesse, die - wie das Gros der Umwelttechniken - von politischer Steuerung abhangen.