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June 2007 |
A Publication of ELLIOTT®
& Company Appraisers |
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CRYSTAL
BROWN NAMED ASSISTANT CLIENT SERVICES DIRECTOR |
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 ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers is pleased to announce the appointment of
Crystal Brown as assistant client services director.
"We are very pleased to be able to promote Crystal to this position," said Charlie Elliott, president of ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers.
"She
has been a loyal and dedicated member of our Client Services Department
and has a thorough understanding of the type of service that we expect
to deliver to our clients."
Crystal, who joined ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers in September 2004,
will work under the direction of Client Services Director Carlyle Holt.
ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers serves clients nationwide and offers
appraisal services in all 50 states of the United States.
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SKYSCRAPERS MORE POPULAR
THEN EVER |
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 In the immediate aftermath
of September 11, 2001, ultra-tall buildings were suddenly considered to
be very unfashionable.
This is no longer the case. According to
Emporis, a German company that studies international construction, 14 of
the world's 50 largest buildings have been completed since the terrorist
attack on the World Trade Center.
"Tall buildings are a matter of ego," said George Efstathiou, managing
partner of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the architecture company
involved with the Freedom Tower, at the World Trade Center site, and
Burj Dubai, which will be the world's tallest building. "Tall buildings
are a sign of success."
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AVERAGE SIZE OF U.S.
HOUSES GROWING |
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 A report released by the U.S. Census
Bureau has confirmed that the average size of a home in the
United States has grown considerably, despite the fact that
households are getting smaller.
According to the report, the average size of a home in this
country grew from about 2,000 square feet in 1990, to 2,434
square feet in 2005. In 1990, 17% of U.S. homes had four or more
bedrooms. By 2005, that figure had increased to 20%. In addition
to more bedrooms, modern homes tend to have more bathrooms. The
concept of media rooms is also growing rapidly.
Homes in the United States average nearly twice the size of those
in Great Britain, France, Germany and most other European
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INTEREST IN SECOND HOMES WANING AMONG WEALTHY |
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According to a report from the
American Affluence Research Center, the wealthiest 10% of
Americans indicated in a survey that they were less likely to
purchase a second home than they were two years ago.
Last March, 4.6% of the respondents said they were seriously
considering the purchase of an existing second home within the
next year and 1.9% said they were interested in building a
second home. In the spring of 2005, 6.3% of those surveyed had
answered positively to the same question about existing homes
and 4.2% said they were considering building a second home.
Ron Kurtz, the center co-founder, credited the dropping
interest in second homes among the wealthy to interest in the
stock market and anticipation of better housing bargains. |
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QUOTES OF WIT &
WISDOM |
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 "The
truth that makes men free is, for the most part, the truth
which men prefer not to hear." -- Herbert Agar
"There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive and
being silent to be impenetrable." --Voltaire
"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when
they are feeling sensible." -- W.H. Auden
"What worries you masters you." -- Haddon Robinson
"In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the
world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs." -- Sir
Francis Darwin
"If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong." -- Morris Udall
"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that
opinions are worthless because they are badly argued." --
Thomas Huxley
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." -- Henry
Kaiser
"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two
questions grow where only one grew before." -- Thorstein
Veblin
"Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has
just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." --
Sidney Harris
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