Essex Estate Services is pleased to be a sponsor of the Raven Theater’s production of Dividing The Estate by Horton Foote. This production runs from January 27, 2015 through March 28, 2015. For more information visit Raven’s web site at: http://www.raventheatre.com/dividing-estate
View Post“Precious” or “semi-precious”, what gives a gemstone value? The greatest contributors to a gemstone’s value are its beauty, rarity and desirability, according to the Gemological Institute of America, (GIA), the most highly regarded source of education in the gem industry. It has been a misnomer for many years to segregate gemstones according to the terms […]
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The Pantone Color Institute, Carlstadt, N.J., has been the global color authority and provider of professional color standards for the design industries for more than 50 years. Pantone charts future color direction and studies how color influences human thought processes, emotions and physical reactions. For the past 14 years, Pantone’s Color of the Year has […]
View PostTHE ENDOWMENT EFFECT Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Yale and U.C. San Diego have recently documented a behavioral bias that we observe frequently in the property liquidation industry. The perception of an item’s value increases from the mere basis of owning it. This is known as the “Endowment Effect.” Historical economic theory proposes that […]
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