1. Insert necessary and play the dialogue:

Kelly has some bad news for Simon:

Kelly: Simon, the a) _________ ________ (representative for their seller) just phoned. She says somebody has made a higher offer for Mr Patel’s house, and that he’s going to accept it. I can’t believe it! We’ve been b) _________ (outbid)!

Simon: What? Patel can’t do that! He agreed to sell it to us – and we’ve paid for the c) ________ (house check) and d) ________ _______ (preparation of legal documents). Do we lose all that money?

Kelly: I’m afraid we just might. We haven’t e) _______ (signed ownership documents) yet. Mr Patel can do whatever he likes.

Places to live:

Bungalow одноповерховий будинок

Block of flats високоповерхівка

Castle замок

Cottage котедж

Detached house окремий двоповерховий будинок

Mansion особняк

Palace палац

Semi-detached house двоповерховий будинок на декілька входів

Tent палатка

Terraced house будинок з терасою

І Places to live. Complete each of the following sentences with an appropriate word for a type of building.

1. He is real prince and his family has lived in this_ _ _ t _ _ since the 14^th century.

2. The high _ _ y _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in New York are mostly to be found in the central part of Manhattan.

3. Students can save money and make friends by living in a university

_ _ _ t _ _.

4. An elderly person is better off in a _ _ _ _ a _ _ _ with no stairs to climb.

5. I’ve always dreamed of moving to the country and living in an old

_ _ _ t _ _ _ .

6. The student’s room was so untidy it was like a p _ _ _ _ _ .

II Kinds of housing. Put each of the following words or phrases into its correct place in the passage below.

above apartments between buildings

cities communities duplex expensive

families floors homes land

large less quarter row

side single single-family stores

suburban wall

Kinds of housing

About two-thirds of the ….. in the United States live in single-family ….. . About a ….. of the families live in ….. that have two to four ….., or in ….. or order commercial buildings that include apartments.

….. cities have more apartment housing than small ….. , because ….. is scarce and ….. . Small towns and ….. areas, where land is ….. expensive than in city centres, have mostly ….. homes.

Philadelphia and other ….. have many ….. houses. These are usually single-family houses, one or two ….. high, standing ….. to wall. A ….. is a building with two apartments, either ….. by side with a ….. wall ….. them, or one ….. the other.

III Buing a house. Put each of the following words or phrases into its correct place in the passage below.

buyer contract deposit

document fixtures information

lawyer legal possession

price proof of ownership property

purchaser seller signs

terms time

Buying a house

When a ….. has chosen the house he wants, he has a ….. draw up a contract. This ….. states the ….. definition of the ….. , gives the purchase …. ,

and demands ….. from the present owner. It also includes other important …. ,

such as the ….. that are to remain in the house and the ….. when the ….. will take ….. .

The buyer pays a ….. when he ….. the ….. . The deposit binds the ….. to the ….. of the contract.

IV Buying house. Choose the right answer.

1. He refused to sell his house at the low …… offered.

1. expense b) figure c) money d)sale

2. There has been a ….. in the sales of new houses since mortgages became more difficult to obtain.

1. broke b) crash c) dive d)drop

3. All their money is ….. up in the new house they have bought.

1. connected b) limited c)lying d) tied

4. The ….. of two houses proved such a financial burden that they were forced to sell on.

1. upkeep b) uproar c)upshot d) upsurge

5. I am not prepared to sell you my house unless you offer a more ….. price.

1. actual b) correct c) realistic d) true

6. When my grandfather died, his house was put up for ….. .

1. auction b) bargain c) offer d) market

7. He bought his house on an ….. plan, paying a certain amount of money each month.

1. instalment b) part c) piece d) share

8. Before you agree to buy that house, find out if the Building Society will give you a ….. .

1. credit b) deposit c) loan d) mortgage

9. His solicitor advised him to make sure that the house was fully ….. by insurance.

1. covered b) defended c) guarded d) protected

10. The corrupt real-estate agent wanted to obtain the contract so he offered a ….. to the civil servant.

1. bait b) bonus c) bribe d) tip

V Buying a house. Rewrite the following advertisement in its full form.

Mod. det. hse., immac. cond. Fhld. 3 gars., 5. beds., 3 reseps., 2 fully tiled baths.+ sep. wcs; lge. fit. kit. 18x19 ft., dble sink; lux. inge. Gas CH/chw; dble. glas. Curts., fit. cpts. included. Landscd. gdn., swim pool. Few mins., stn.,bus, amens., seafront. $1500,000 ono.

VI Buying a house/flat. Choose the correct answer.

1. They sold their house for only $15,000, so the buyer got a wonderful ….. .

1. amount b) bargain c) cost d) worth

2. If we want to buy a house, we’ll have to ….. our spending.

1. care of b)cut back c) let down d) save

3. The rise in house prices ….. him to sell his house for a large profit.

1. achieved b) enabled c) managed d) succeeded

4. They ….. me a good price for my house, so I sold it.

1. brought b) offered c) showed d) suggested

5. All house-owners need ….. policy against thefts or accidents.

1. an assurance b) an insurance c) a protection d) a security

6. I advice you to take ….. to ensure that your property is a adequately covered by insurance.

1. actions b) dealings c) means d) steps

7. They ….. great difficulty saving up enough money for a house.

1. achieved b) found c) had d) made

8. He bought that house, ….. that he would inherit money under his uncle’s will.

1. accounting b) assuming c) considering d) estimating

9. They made ….. of over $1,500 on the sale of their house.

a) benefit b) a gain c) a fall d) a profit

10. He was lucky to get the house for less than the asking ….. .

1. amount b) cost c) price d) value

11. This house has been up ….. sale for over a year now.

1. at b) for c) in d)to

TEXT: Evaluation Activity

According to article 4 of the Law of Ukraine № 2658-III of 12 July 2001 "On the valuation of property, property rights and professional appraisal services in Ukraine" professional evaluation activity - is a work of appraisers and the subjects of evaluation activity, which is the organizational, methodological and practical realization assess the property, examining and drawing conclusions about the value of the property.

Evaluation activity can be carried out in such forms:

Practical evaluation activities property valuation, Which is the practical implementation of property valuation and all procedures related thereto, in accordance with the requirements set forth regulations on the valuation of the property;

Consulting activities, which is to provide advice on the valuation of the property subject of evaluation activities, evaluation of customers (or) other persons, either orally or in writing;

Reviewing the evaluation report of property that lies in its critical examination and provision of conclusions about the completeness, correctness of implementation and compliance procedures of property valuation requirements of the regulations on the valuation of the property as prescribed by the Act and regulations in property valuation;

Methodological provision of property valuation, which is to develop guidance documents to assess the property and provide clarification regarding their applications;

Learning activities of appraisers, which is to participate in the educational process for training evaluators

Practical score activity on the property may be exclusively subject of evaluation activities, recognized such in accordance with the Act.

TEXT: Land evaluation

Land evaluation may be defined as the process of prediction of land performance when the land is used for specified purposes. Land evaluation can be a key tool for land use planning, either by individual land users (e.g., farmers), by groups of land users (e.g., cooperatives or villages), or by society as a whole (e.g., as represented by governments). There is a diverse set of analytical techniques which may be used to describe land uses, to predict the response of land to these in both physical and economic terms, and to optimize land use in the face of multiple objectives and constraints.

These notes were developed for the Cornell University course Soil, Crop & Atmospheric Sciences 494 Special Topics in Soil, Crop & Atmospheric Sciences: Land evaluation, with emphasis on computer applications, Spring Semester 1994, and were subsequently expanded and formatted for publication. They are not to be considered as a definitive text on land evaluation. Clearly, they are somewhat outdated. Still, they may be a useful starting point.