SITES & SOUNDS -"Emotion" has always been part of the sales equation, particularly in the sale of a home. But, in recent months, Carolyn Shamis of Carsha Inc. Realtors, has found that bankers don't have emotions. "Today, the banks have set up departments to handle-the foreclosures," says Shamis. "They have absolutely no emotion," she emphasizes. "1 called a bank the other day to say I had a contract for them to look at. Naturally I was excited and asked if I could bring it in. 'No, just mail it' was the response.

The vibrant real estate broker wasn't knocking this way of doing business, merely observing the change in the sales process. "It just adds another piece to the, sales puzzle," she smiles. Shamis and her dedicated staff have been putting together a puzzle a week lately, much to her delight. "We're busier now than we have been many months," she says. Shamis specializes in the big deals, at least $1 million or more. "These take at least a year to sell," she continues. Some of the trends she has detected include a comeback for Turtle Creek high rises. "Places that have water are very popular right now," Shamis details. She has recorded a Turtle Creek high-rise condo sale as well as a zero-lot-line closing in Glen Lakes. Both sales were influenced by the presence of water.

Shamis' eyes sparkle when she talks about how successful her leasing division has been lately. Jill Lucas is responsible for this operation. "She's doing three or four deals a month," explains Shamis. These are leases for large homes and$5,000 a month high rise apartments. "We're not experiencing the discounts in leases that are happening in sales," she notes.

While emotion might be missing in the sales equation, Carolyn Shamis hasn't dropped any of her emotion nor her enthusiasm in bringing the buyer and seller together at the closing table. "People still like personal service," smiles the vivacious Shamis who keeps trim and healthy through daily exercise and sensible diet. "Service is everything, so is networking, "says Shamis.

Womack-Humphreys, a 70-person commercial and residential architectural firm based in Dallas, has opened two more regional offices; has joined it a operation with one of Dallas' largest commercial interior design space planning and architectural firms and has added an education facilities division. The offices are in Boston and Boca Raton. The design firm is Branch-Taylor Associates. Womack-Humphreys also has offices in New-port Beach, CA, Princeton NJ, Orlando, FL and Washington. DC. K. Patrick Renfro. AIA will head the new Educational Facilities Division as vice president. He formerly was with CRSS Architecture Group. Also. Dennis K. Peck. AIA has been named vice president and project director responsible for projects throughout the South, Southeast and Midwestern U. S. Formerly be was with James. Harwick-Peck, a Dallas-based architectural he co-founded in 1979. ;"