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Barron's Real Estate Handbook, 6th Edition by Jack P. Friedman, Jack C. Harris, and Barry A. Diskin Published by Barron's, New York, 2005, 832 pages $35.00, hardcover
Barron's Real Estate Handbook covers a potpourri of real estate topics in 832 pages. This handbook is a useful reference for the beginning real estate practitioner. For the serious professional who wants to have a solid library of reference tools, this book can save time.
One of the positive appeals of this book is that line drawings, illustrations, and graphics are extensively employed to illustrate design styles, convey spatial relationships, and communicate the essences of concepts. The Real Estate Handbook effectively employs visual images in its communications, supplementing the terse word treatment of various terms with extensive graphics of building styles and physical relationships of property attributes.