Colin Jones is an economist who has been a professor at Heriot-Watt University since 1998. He formerly worked at the Universities of Manchester, Glasgow and the West of Scotland. His research interests span commercial, industrial and housing market economics, investment and policy together with the macroeconomy and local economic development. He has also taken an interest in the property markets of developing countries. Colin has a long experience of teaching real estate investment at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and formerly designed and been director of the Heriot-Watt real estate postgraduate programmes.

Edward Trevillion is Honorary Professor of Real Estate Investment and Finance at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He has had wide experience of both academic and market-based research and has held posts as Head of Real Estate Research and Strategy at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP, now part of abdrn, formerly Standard LifeAberdeen plc) and Head of Property Research for GVA in Scotland. He is particularly interested in developing adaptive models that take account of changing property market structures. Until recently he was course leader for Heriot-Watt's Real Estate Investment Analysis course - part of the Master's real estate programme.

Encompasses both elementary and more advanced areas of real estate investment

Offers a historical perspective that will particularly highlight the role of real estate cycles

Covers a wide range of global investment issues that have come to prominence in the last decade¿

Includes an associated website that will provide up-to-date market trends, feature exercises and pricing models alongside referencing new reports/papers

PART 1:- The Real Estate Sector.- Chapter 1:-Introduction.- Chapter 2:-Principles of Investment.- Chapter 3:-Macroeconomy and Real Estate Cycles.- PART 2:-Real Estate Investment.- Chapter 4:-Characteristics of Real Estate Investment.- Chapter 5:-Investors.- 6:-Market Efficiency and Asset Pricing.- 7:-Portfolio Theory.- Chapter 8:-Portfolio Management.- Chapter 9:-International Investment.- PART 3:-Developing Real Estate Paradigms.- Chapter 10:-State Intervention and Implications for Investment.- Chapter 11;-Investment Consequences of Changing Occupier Needs and Obsolescence.- Chapter 12:-Real Estate Opportunities and Challenges.- PART 4:-Final thoughts.- Potential dissertation topics.