Hello all,

I currently work on the residential side of real estate and am interested in starting to educate myself about commercial real estate.
I am drawn more towards land sales and development, since a lot of this goes on in my area and current clients are somewhat involved in this.

Can anyone reccomend any good books or resources for learning the basics or at least a good place to get started?

I appreciate your help.

thanks
Austin

RCA is a good place to start (realtors commercial alliance)

As far as books there are plenty on development. The key is you will not have the contacts,knowledge,or clout to handle the big deals yet.

Go work for a commercial brokerage specializing in the area you want to have a niche in such as (retail,industrial,land,office,hotels,leasing,etc.etc.)

My training was on the job with a developer over 2 years working on a 150 million dollar project. In the field is the best way to learn but you need the basic foundation first.