, 1880-05-30
REAL ESTATE.

IACVAIA3k 1TAu8ACI40n8 In R8II UEA.
tate Last Week-The Market Qufo1
but FIrm-Sales at an Advance Oyer
Previous Prices - Inquiry for Prop
erty tn Kenwood, Hyde Park. aud
South Chfca$o-Neyv Buildings Pro-
| 1ected-Ctty Improvement Notes-Sub.
urban Rapid Transit.
Although real estate has been quiet the
past week, there has been fair inquiry, and
the prices obtained in such transactions as
have been made show that the market is
hrm. There is steady Investment move.
lnent in real estate, and later u return of
the speculative wave is confidently looked
Tor by those who have seen real estate excite
ments come and 90. One OF the
| MOST SIGNIFICANT SALES
OF the week was that Of a lot, :3OOx190, at the
northwest corner of Forty street and
! Woodlawll avenue, for SlO0 foot. Last
| fall this property sold for $50 foot
George A. Higginson sold 100 feet on
Adams street, 100x165, between Market and
franklin, opposit George Armour's new
building, for 5000 a foot cash. In 1872 this
lot was sold for $3.50 a foot
Fifty feet have been sold on the west side
Of Fifth avenue, between jackson and Van
Buren streets, for $500 a foot cash A year
ago it was offered for 500 foot, and the
best offer that could be got was SITS a foot.
E. S. Dreyer Il Co. have sold three-story
stone-f1ont, with 2o-toor lot, No. 16l North
Clark street, to Edward Waller ESQ.,, for
$l4,7 ,75o; 4ox15o fee5 with 1ive-story brick
building, southwest corner OF Jefferson and
Indiana streets, to Fred Wacker, Esq, for
$4,000; A)x100 to alley on Lake street, 60
feet west Of Franklin street, north front, TO
George c. Andregg fur Ss25 per foot; 50x15o
feet on North Clark street, 200 feet north of
Goethe street, east front, to KuIman s. Wet
terer for $50 per foot; t1yo-story brick ho,se
and lot on Blue Island avenue, near Gurley
street. s., GOO; cottage and lot on SedgwicE
hear Centre street, for s., $50; cottage and
lot lot On en- Chestnut near State, 81 600; and 50x
Lake View, at $33 per foot
Air, Samuel Gehr has sold to Mr. Jargen
Lauritzen ut the northwest corner of State
ana 10, IMh!rty-slxth I'M streets for 81 500. The lot
Jug 70 cost about $so, ,ooo Mr.: Gehr las sold
to Capt John Prindlvllle No. 3ss North
State street. The sum paid was Sc, 500.
Ihe MaStef-in- -Chancery sale Of the four
story building. known as the Golden Eagle |
site, has been made matter of record The
property has a front on Clark street US well |
as the former thoroughfare, and was taken ]
BY the nlortgagee, Mr.. William II. Taylor, an |
Eastern man, for $113,525.
In HYDE PARK,
B. A. Ulrich sold l44xl5o feet on the south
west corner Of Fiftieth street and Washing
ton avenue, to S. Larminie, at $40 foot. and !
150xl25, corner Of Fifty-frst and Hyde Park
avenue, S6,ooo, to Edwin Henning, of Ken
wood. Parties are inQuirlng every day for
lots to Improve in Kenwood and Hyde Park.
!, Surveyor Dobson has sold four lots in
South Chicago, near the new rollingmill, for
ss4450 q lot
For the Wicker farm of $50 acres, three
nj y mile aHsYoef ~f g |
IN acre has been offered and refused. It was
sold in 1872 for $3.50 all acre
In THE SALES OF TIE wEEK
Eere 'e. a4xlsS feet improved; on Sedgwick
abroad, on Calumet avenue, north Of
!. ..w@enueth @h street, So 800; 3ox1::5 feet on West
= = aaams M street, east of Leavitt, improved, |
.o.Mo: 2ox19o on North Clark, north Of On
;aao, Grao, improved, s14.75o; 25x11S on West Har-
,ason ,ser faSt OF Cana, 5000; 25xl25 on State,
lsenHne: ~ 3Hl south of Van Buren, $3.50; Nx14
~ warren avenue, west Of Robey, 5000;