System for valuing and transferring interests in property or other goods

A computerized method for valuing and transferring interests in property or other goods, comprising the following steps:

• a) Receiving first information from a first party into a processor wherein first information contains at least in part data identifying property or goods in which first party has an ownership interest and a numerical value corresponding to a price at which first party would be willing to sell or transfer a specified portion of said interest to a second party or, alternatively, at which first party would be willing to buy or acquire a specified portion of said second party's interest in certain specified property or goods;
• b) Treating said numerical value as confidential;
• c) Providing said second party with an opportunity to make a confidential presentation of second information to said processor wherein second information contains at least in part data specifying a numerical value corresponding to a price at which second party would be willing to buy or acquire said specified portion of said first party's interest, or, alternatively, sell or transfer said specified of portion of said second party's interest;
• d) Upon receiving second information prior to said deadline, processing first and second information and determining third information as a function of first and second information wherein third information includes at least in part a determination as to whether the numerical value specified in first information was greater than, equal to, or less than the numerical value specified in second information;
• e) Where third information includes a determination that the numerical value specified in first information is not equal to the numerical value specified in second information, processing first and second information and determining fourth information as a function of first and second information wherein fourth information includes at least in part a determination of an intermediate numerical value corresponding to a price that is between said two values;
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• f) Where third information includes a determination that the numerical value specified in first information is equal to the numerical value specified in second information, disclosing said determination to first party and to second party;
• g) Whereby a party that is willing to either sell or transfer an interest that it holds in certain property to another party for a certain price, or, in the alternative, buy or acquire an interest that the other party holds in certain property for that same price, may, by agreeing to have that price compared with a price at which the other party would be willing to either buy or sell those same interests, and by agreeing that if the prices are not equal then the party that proposed the higher price shall be the buyer, with the price being set at an intermediate numerical value, place itself and the other party in a position where, if the prices are not equal, each party will always succeed in either purchasing or selling at a price that is more favorable to that party than the price at which that party was willing to carry out the exchange.