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Record during recitation: You are listening to All About Business, the podcast with your host(s) Prithvi and a guest. We will be hearing from him in segment three, so stay till the end if you want to hear his opinions and views on today’s topic.

Speaking of today's topic, in this episode of All About Business the Podcast we discuss: What is real estate, how it works, and what areas have the potential to grow in value.

For our first segment I will discuss real estate and give a brief overview on the different types and categories of real estate. 

1. Real estate is property that consists of land that has both man-made buildings and natural resources on it.
2. A real estate business buys, sells, manages, or invests in real estate properties
3. There are 5 main types of real estate:
4. Residential: Refers to any property that is used for housing. This includes family homes, cooperatives, duplexes, and condos. 
5. Commercial: Refers to any property that is exclusively used for business purposes. This includes apartment complexes, gas stations, grocery stores, hospitals, hotels, offices, parking facilities, restaurants, shopping centers, stores, and theaters.  
6. Industrial: Refers to all lands that accommodate industrial-sized activities. These activities include manufacturing, production, distribution, storage, and research and development. Some buildings include factories, power plants, and warehouses. 
7. Raw land: Refers to undeveloped or agricultural land such as farms, ranches, and timberlands. Can be significantly cheaper and requires no property insurance. But it cannot generate income on its own. 
8. Special use: Property used by the public like cemeteries, government buildings, libraries, parks, places of worship, and schools.  

In this segment we will be discussing how to invest in real estate, what risks are associated with it, but also what rewards you could acquire if you invest in real estate.

1. Basically if you buy a property for lets say $200,000 and you wait for a couple months or years and sell it for $400,000 you make a profit of around $200,000. Why were you able to sell it for $200,000 more? It's because the value of the property increased.