Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
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complex or major high dollar value transactions. We<br />
provide the day-to-day real estate guidance to the<br />
embassies when they just call in and have a question<br />
about the landlord is doing this, what do I do with<br />
my lease, what are my rights? And we get into<br />
dealing with bilateral property rights issues from<br />
time to time when they come up as well.<br />
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So, just a snapshot today. We're typically<br />
working on about 200 multi-year real estate<br />
transactions in my shop at any given time. And if<br />
you just took a snapshot today <strong>of</strong> the value <strong>of</strong> those<br />
real transactions, it's around two billion dollars.<br />
This year so far, fiscal year '07, you can see some<br />
<strong>of</strong> the stats up there, we've completed, meaning<br />
closed, over 200 sales, purchases, major leases, and<br />
decommissions this year valued at close to a billion<br />
dollars, another almost 50 properties under contract<br />
for sale or to purchase. We've put sites under<br />
contract in 11 cities this year, closed on another<br />
seven. We've put 38 housing properties under<br />
contract to buy, closed on 52 more, sold almost 20<br />
properties, decommissioned over 80 properties, and<br />
completed a number <strong>of</strong> major lease relocations and<br />
again, with about 25 people.<br />
Those nearly 300 completed real estate<br />
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