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The best real estate books include real-world stories and actionable advice. Curate your reading list for 2023 with these suggestions.

While we had news today of the British Prime Minister resigning, yesterday my doctor asked if anyone in my family suffers from mental illness. I replied, "No, we all seem to enjoy it." Suffering from a lack of liquidity is the death knell for lenders and certainly nothing to joke about. Want to know the quickest way to shut your business down? Don’t return your warehouse bank’s phone call. In the secondary markets, if no one is interested in buying the products we...

Camping: “where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person.” Lenders have done a remarkable job in the last few years trying to reduce homelessness in an indirect way, namely putting credit-worthy borrowers in well-collateralized properties in a compliant manner despite COVID. But let me get right to the point. It’s not good out there now for residential lenders, or their counterparties. After a remarkable, record-setting 2020 and 2021, the industry is now suff...

Improving your skills? Starting a book club? Here are the top real estate reads that'll help you get better at everything — from sharpening your communication chops to upping your Facebook advertising game.

Every year, a slew of new real estate books come out that promise to help agents to become, well, even better agents. And every year, Brandon Doyle sifts through the titles to find the most worthwhile reads. Here are the standouts from the past five years.