Land Investment and the Predevelopment Process: A Guide for Finance and Real Estate Professionals

This book provides a thorough guide to the issues to be resolved to minimize risks and maximize private and public rewards for land development projects. The author fully explores the strategic considerations involved in selecting the right piece of land and in obtaining the necessary building approvals. The author investigates the impacts of economic conditions, federal programs, demographic and income-related trends, state and local policies,land use controls, and urban sprawl on the predevelopment process. Recent Publications on Governmental Problems

This is the first comprehensive examination of land investment at the predevelopment stage—when undeveloped land is converted into developable properties. This book provides a thorough guide to the issues to be resolved to minimize risks and maximize private and public rewards for land development projects. Rabinowitz fully explores the strategic considerations involved in selecting the right piece of land and in obtaining the necessary building approvals. He underscores the importance of a cooperative relationship between investor-developers and regulatory officials in an era of high land prices and increasingly complex permitting procedures. He investigates the impacts of economic conditions, federal programs, demographic and income-related trends, state and local policies, land use controls, and urban sprawl on the predevelopment process. In the last chapter Rabinowitz presents a cogent analysis of land prices and values at the predevelopment stage. Numerous tables, charts, and suggested readings amplify the discussion.

ISBN-13: 9780899303260

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date: 05-17-1988

Pages: 239

Product Dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.00(d)

ALAN RABINOWITZ has spent the last forty years in the business of real estate investment, in the practice of city and regional planning, and in teaching and writing about urban development finance.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Stephen P. Walker, III
The Critical Role for Predevelopment
Characteristics of the Land Conversion Industry
National Economic, Technological, and Environmental Prospects
Demographic and Income-Related Factors in Housing and Urban Development
Predevelopment Land and State-Local Policies
Predevelopment Land and Local Land-Use Controls
Predevelopment Land and Urban Sprawl
Finding the Right Locale for Development
Land Prices and Values
Index

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