Research Guides: Real Estate Track: FNCE 235

Textbooks

Living in Smart Cities by Thomas Menkhoff
Call Number: HT153 .L535 2018
ISBN: 9789813232839
Publication Date: 2018-02-01
Cities around the world are becoming increasingly popular as economic powerhouses and magnets for migrants from rural and suburban areas. All big cities in First and Third World countries as well as emerging markets such as New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Dehli, Jakarta etc. have to cope with high population density and serious challenges such as air pollution or traffic congestion. How do we pack more people into big cities and yet continue to realise a high quality of life? How do we plan, create and manage 'good cities' which are safe, spacious, green, connected, fair and resilient? How can cities create economic wealth while still fulfilling the vision of sustaining our 'Green Planet'?
Finance for Real Estate Development by Charles Long
Call Number: HD1390 .L66 2011
ISBN: 9780874201574
Publication Date: 2011-04-25
Explaining how finances drive each decision in the real estate development process, this helpful industry guide recognizes the complexities and significant risks of each project and illustrates how to reconcile conflicting elements to ultimately achieve success. A 36-year real estate development veteran, author Charles Long shares the practical information and personal insights that he has gained over the course of his career, and weaves relevant real world examples into the text, helping to clarify the principles necessary to effectively manage a project in today’s financial landscape. Ideal both for those starting out in real estate development and experienced professionals who want to learn the theory behind the practice, this book offers a different perspective on making the monetary decisions that are involved in property development projects.
Real Estate Development by Mike E. Miles; Laurence M. Netherton; Adrienne Schmitz
Call Number: HD255 .R348 2015 Locate
ISBN: 9780874203431
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
Completely revised and updated, the fifth edition of this bestselling textbook covers each stage of the real estate development process, explaining the basics of idea conception, feasibility, planning, financing, market analysis, contract negotiation, construction, marketing, and asset management. This new edition has been revised to include new topics such as sustainability, green building, and how development financing has changed since the Great Recession. It includes all-new examples, case studies, and photographs. The text is intended for university students in schools of business, planning, architecture, engineering, and law. It is also a useful beginning point for those shifting careers, either into development or between roles in development.

Databases

For Real Estate Data

Preqin Real Estate This link opens in a new window
Real Estate add-on includes intelligence on the private real estate fund industry. It provides information on all areas of the private real estate asset class, including institutional investor, fund, performance, deal and asset data.

Real Estate research data is only available through the main Preqin platform.
Bloomberg Professional Services This link opens in a new window
Bloomberg provides real-time and historical pricing, indicative and fundamental data, charts and graphs on different topics, customized analytics, and market news. Use this database to obtain financial and business information, including real-time and intraday data.
Use Bloomberg computers at the Investment Studio on Level 3 of the Library.
Eikon This link opens in a new window
Eikon provides real-time and historical pricing, charts and graphs, customized analytics, and market news on markets such as equities, commodities, fixed income, forex.

Booking instructions: Book a terminal here and use the corresponding Eikon computer in the Investment & Data Studio at Level 3. Limited to one booking per user per day.
Login instructions: Click on the Eikon icon on the desktop and wait for the login details to load automatically. DO NOT click on the login area.
Guides: How do I use Eikon.
REALIS This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to comprehensive information on the Singapore property market. It contains a wide range of statistics on the private residential, commercial and industrial sectors, as well as details about individual projects. Use REALIS to obtain data such as prices of transacted sales of properties, vacancy rate, available and occupied floor space, rental property indices and rental per square metre.

Access: 2 concurrent users. Remember to logout at the end of your session. REALIS is not accessible daily between 3 am to 5 am as the REALIS server is down for maintenance.
Preqin This link opens in a new window
Preqin provides data and information on the private equity asset class and includes: fund information, fund manager profiles, performance analysis, buyout deals analysis and investor intelligence.

Access via Preqin alternatively via WRDS (you will need a WRDS account).

For industry reports

Fitch Connect This link opens in a new window
Use Fitch Connect (formerly Business Monitor International (BMI) Research) to locate SWOT analysis, risk/reward ratings, macroeconomic forecasts and brief company profiles for countries in Asia and the Middle East. Service categories include amongst others: Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, Food & Drink, Consumer Electronics, Banking, Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Transport, Travel and Tourism, Retail, Telecommunications and Commodities. Use the data and forecast feature to compare geographies and indicators to perform analysis and generate charts.

When you are at the landing page, select either module based on the information you want.
Fitch ratings Pro - Credit research and insights across various sectors and industries, except fundamental data.
BMI - Country risk and industry analysis focusing on macroeconomic, political, industry and operational insights
Emerging Markets Information Service This link opens in a new window
Access this database for company and industry information, macroeconomic analysis, financial markets data, merges and acquisitions, forecasts and news for over 70 countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, Africa & the Middle East. Includes some information on private companies. Many news sources are in the local language. It also contains some analyst reports.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Passport, previously known as GMID, is produced by Euromonitor. It is an integrated database providing key business intelligence on countries, markets, and consumers. It focuses on fast moving consumer goods and provides users with historical statistics, forecasts, analysis of consumer lifestyles, brand and company information, and full-text market analysis. Guide on How Do I use Passport is available.
Orbis This link opens in a new window
Use Orbis to find, analyse and compare over 400 million public and private companies. The database also contains industry research, financials and corporate ownership information.
Orbis is also now available from the WRDS platform.
How do I filter/search for private companies?
Search by: Official > Standardised Legal Form
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Business Source Ultimate covers business topics such as marketing, management information systems, accounting, finance, banking, and economics mostly from journals. Use the Company View to find detailed company information on finances, subsidiaries, products, employees and industry specifics for more than 1.1 million of the world’s largest public and private companies. Related content includes case studies, industry profiles, SWOT analyses, articles from business journals, magazines and trade publications, market research reports, product reviews, news articles and country reports. Access over 74,000 videos from the Associated Press. It indexes Harvard Business Review from 1922.
Ebscohost has a mobile web application at http://m.ebscohost.com/

News Databases

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva combines more than 35,000 sources from 200 countries in 26 languages. Content type includes newspapers, magazines, trade journals, blogs, podcasts, websites, and newswires like Dow Jones and Reuters. Search in English, or another language of your choice. Find listed Singapore and international companies information under Companies/Markets. Take note that downloading of content for analytics is not permitted.
Financial Times This link opens in a new window
FT.com includes breaking news, commentary, data and analysis. Take advantage of the premium learning tools such as Alerts Hub, FT clippings, FT Mobile, ePaper, FT Lexicon (glossary) and annotation tool. FT archive begins with 28 January 2009 issue.
Mobile version for smart phones and tablets is available.

To access click Sign In on the top of the homepage. If you are a first-time user you will be prompted to fill in some information after logging in.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
WSJ provides current global news and probing analysis of markets, corporations, financials and technology. News archive is available up to latest 7-year.

Access requirements: One-time registration is required, using your SMU email address. After you have successfully created your account, you can access the service anywhere, across devices.
Economist.com This link opens in a new window
Economist.com covers issues in global business and politics. The coverage includes the archive of articles published since 1997 from the print edition of The Economist magazine, and 2000 to current issues come complete with graphs, tables and pictures.