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Show I Land Vetoes cn Upswing, Says Expert r v j SAN FRANCISCO This wil! be a good year for selling youii farm, ranch or country home, ac-i cording to the head of one oli the nation's largest rural real, estate brokerage firms. Robert M. Chamberlain, presi-( dent of United Farm Agency, re-j ports that the current year alsc; will be as good as any "in the foreseeable future" for buying country property. Rural real es-j tate values, which hit record ; highs in 1958 will advance still! further this year, Chamberlain! predicts. Prices are being pushed up byi two main factors: 1-a dwindling supply of rural property avail- j able; and 2- a mounting demand for country property from "non-farmers", "non-farmers", including business men, professional people, white-collar white-collar workers and wage-earners, he said. "These people buy for a variety varie-ty of reasons," Chamberlain said, . "but about 75 per cent of United's sales are made for retirement, re-tirement, recreation or investment invest-ment purposes." j The agency, which operates In 17 states across the nation through some 250 local representatives, repres-entatives, is known to thousands of families for the free catalog it farm and ranch listings that it publishes. Chamberlain makes his headquarters with the West-frn West-frn Division office, 681 Market Street, San Francisco. |