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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 />

Free <strong>State</strong> Reporting, Inc.<br />

1378 Cape St. Claire Road<br />

Annapolis, MD 21409<br />

(410) 974-0947

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