26 Best Books on Real Estate Investing

By Frank Gallinelli

“What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know” is the third edition of the bestselling guide to making a fortune investing in real estate. It teaches how to judge a property’s value and predict how it will change with time, measuring the most important factors that define the quality of investment to guarantee the best possible long-term results. The best part is that it is up-to-date and relevant to the modern market instead of the good old days when some properties were getting more expensive every hour.

By Brandon Turner

Most people think that real estate investments are impossible without loads of cash. And for some, the lack of money seems the only thing that lays between them an even bigger wealth. It turns out that everything is not quite so. “The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down” is aimed at removing exactly this roadblock on the way to successful real estate investments. For that, it reveals many almost-no-money creative investment strategies and ways to attract other people to invest instead of you and benefit from that.

By David Greene

Some markets are full of opportunities, others are not. Does this mean that if in the city or state where you live is of the second type and it is almost impossible to find a promising property there, you should forget about real estate investments? Of course, it doesn’t. And the book “Long-Distance Real Estate Investing” is right what you need in this case. It teaches how to benefit from long-distance opportunities, finding out-of-state properties that may bring the amazing returns without even seeing them, and make the least possible mistakes along this way.

By Marko Rubel

Marko Rubel is a self-proclaimed master of creativity on the real estate market, who knows firsthand how to build a fortune starting with as little as $3K. In his book, “How To Invest In Real Estate Without Banks”, he shares one of his surprising strategies of investment that allows having passive income without the need to spend all savings (or credit money) first. Within this invention, Marko promises something completely different from everything you may already know like flipping or renting houses.

By Mark Ferguson, entrepreneur & investor

“Fix and Flip Your Way to Financial Freedom” is an excellent guide on building a career as a house flipper, created by an experienced real estate agent with the background of over 150 flip deals. It will be equally helpful for those only planning to venture into this exciting career and for those who want their existing business grow bigger and more profitable. Reading this book, you will discover how to find promising deals, how to predict the cost of a flip, what houses to buy, what to stay away from, and much more.

By J Scott & others

One more excellent addition to one’s real estate library, “The Book on Flipping Houses” offers a new look on house flips from the practicing flipper and author of one of the top websites in the industry. It contains 20 chapters on 350 pages, full of actionable information on the subject that will be helpful for anyone stepping into the house flipping business. Reading it, you will learn how to ensure financing, how to evaluate properties and markets, how to close deals efficiently, how to complete fixes in a cost-effective way, and much more.

By Joe Fairless & Theo Hicks

The book “Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever” promises a bunch of advice from the guests of the podcast, run by its author, Joe Fairless. The first volume in the series, this piece will be a great addition to your real estate business education. For example, among many other things, it teaches creative approaches to raising money, closing deals and making investments with almost no money, as well as tells about overlooked expenses, lenders’ strategies for evaluating loaners, and tons of other quite unobvious issues.

By Brandon Turner

Brandon Turner is the active investor and BiggerPockets’s podcast host, who shares his expertise in this book. Despite the quite straightforward self-explanatory title, this publication is a valuable piece of information, able to guide you through the initial stages of real estate investment business. It will equip you with everything necessary for a good start, including 4 actionable strategies, exact tools, and countless tips, helping avoid typical problems and obstacles that keep many people away from wealth and success in this old and exciting industry.

By Amanda Han

Tax season may become an awful pain in the neck for the unprepared real estate investor. If you shudder with fear every time you think about doing taxes, get “The Book on Tax Strategies”. It covers this unavoidable part of investing business, uncovering many helpful nuances and giving you actionable advice on how to develop a tax strategy, how to maximize tax deductions, write off every penny possible, and protect yourself from any law-related issues. It will help you keep as much of your income as possible in accordance with the law.

By Phil Pustejovsky

Learning from other people’s mistakes is always better than from your own ones. This is a premise of the “Real Estate Investing Gone Bad” book that presents 21 stories of real estate investments that resulted in disastrous failures, huge financial losses, wasted time and energy, horrible stress, and emotional pressure. Of course, the purpose of this is not to gloat over the misfortunes of others – instead, all these stories provide valuable lessons and reveal what you shouldn’t do as a real estate investor.

By David Geltner & others

“Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investments” is an all-encompassing study that may be extremely helpful for students and anyone who needs to gain a deep understanding of commercial properties market. It provides impressive educational opportunity and knowledge that is necessary for making well-grounded decisions on investments that will pay off in the long-term perspective, as well as for developing a good investment strategy. Each chapter is followed by exercises to help grasp the information to the full extent and implement it in future to get the best possible results.

By Brian H. Murray

This award-winning book is an impressive beginner’s guide to commercial real estate investing. Brian Murray, once an ordinary teacher and now-millionaire, knows firsthand how it is to jump into real estate business with completely no previous experience but with loads of passion and belief. And in his book, he shares his experience of building wealth from scratch and the vision that allowed him to get where he is now, while revealing tips on increasing profit, minimizing costs, and approaching commercial real estate investments in a creative and efficient way.

By James A. Randel

If you are tired of inspirational reads and want something more down to earth, “Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur” is right what you need. In this book, James Randel, the investor with years of experience, numerous successful businesses, and countless real estate investments behind his back, shares his wisdom and lessons learned during his impressive career, revealing detailed examples from his practice, strategies he used, mistakes he made, as well as his honest vision of what it takes to become a successful investor.