What Do Students Need To Know About Property? What Do Textbooks Actually Teach About Property?

[excerpt] To function effectively in multiple roles and priorities concerning property, students need to know property knowledge that they would not know prior and sadly, all too prevalently, after to an introductory real estate principles course. These roles subsume responsible citizen, consumer of property goods and services, choosing place in which to live, selecting and arranging the terms of a particular property interest, property in business, development and the place making process, property financing and investing, and the various functions of property and the careers associated with those property functions.This big scope, big scale, big tent knowledge prescription implies an audience for property education extending well beyond those who might work in the property discipline per se. Introductory property textbooks, however, are predominantly oriented to those who would pursue property careers.The design of a property curriculum necessarily follows from consideration of the scope and particulars of the property discipline as widely recognized and practised....