pThis book presents a new way of thinking about, teaching, learning, and practicing real estate development.ppReal Estate Development Matrix describes the process in a two-dimensional model and presents seven Development Stages which form the horizontal axis, and eight sets of Development Tasks which form the vertical axis to define a 56-cell matrix. In each cell, money is spent and risks are taken to achieve certain tasks and thereby create or destroy value. This holistic process considers the entire life cycle of real estate from its green field inception to its brown field state. ppThe book is written by a real estate developer and academic, and the presented material is conceptual, practical, and non-technical. Jargon has been minimized as much as possible as the author introduces an entirely new model for real estate development that is both academically authoritative and developed in practice. ppIt is aimed at a general professional audience participating in the development proce