, 1881-05-01
REAL ESTATE.
Large Volume of Small Sales
Good Demand for Gen.
tral Property.
Extensive Purchase on the Avenues
South Of the Fifty-6fth
Street Boulevard.
Building Enterprises Involving Expendj-
lures Of Millions Waiting for
Cheap Brick.
The Old Post-OHlce Building and
the First National Bank.

the First National Bank.
LARGE AND SMALL BUYERS.
Transfers OF rcaa estate for small amounts
! have been unusually numerous Of late. and
| without any boom or the trnce Of speculative nc
| 1lyi1y arc keeping the business above that Ut
] last year. Such transactions as that one
published last Sunday OF the sale of tho north
! east corner Of Wabash avenue and Adams
street ut 81, 80 foot. and sone other sales now
III negotiation not far from the site Of the above.
prove, also, that large buyers are In the
| field. Acssrs- Van Higgins and Furber, who
bought the property occupied by Mr.
| Brands art gallery Oil Wabash avenue for S7s,-
co., have been offered slvo o13 for it, and do uoe
think it is enough. Contra, business property Is
in demand, but can not easily be found, and cou-
seryativc buyers arc going farther out
One Of tho best transactions Of the week is tho
purchase by Mr- Hurry ". King of
! 1.tE5 feet on. Michigan, Wabash, and
Indiana avenues and Statc street, at tho
corners M OF I IFttyesxth ,snf street The pFce psa
feet south Of the Fifty-ftfth street boulevard,
aud includes 800 feet on Wabash avenue, $50
feet on State street: 1t is very. well situated,
and is Il most advantageous purchase.
The ehcapness Of property north Of tho
% 'G 'rast ana are Cue evas RFs
new. life to real cstato -nlong tho
SSah soE prScr &c. oi
Tourney and wife, slxty-tve acres In the n. ".
i Of Sec. u, II, u, fronting Ridge avenue south
$500 This property will Vt once be subdivided
il. 5: Evcrhart has sold for franklin E. Morse
to J.. christoph. the banker. residence on the
northeast corner OF Thirty-frst street And
Grpscland Park avenue for 5000 cash. The lot
r Schmidt r,aporte +ho aofo IF ot,-rrS roa+
with brick building, on Lincoln avenue, south Of
Centre street, southwest front. for $500 cash;
els" cottage and lot on Kendall street, south Of
". L. Iarkn has sold, at Humboldt Park. four
lots on North avenue, fronting the Park, for
aud lot for sl,0O two lots for sl,00o three lots
for :A0, one @ iot for $780, two lots for $500, aud
one LOT for $a5o.
ises No. ~ West Madison street, thirty feetwth
frame improvements, for S7,U03: tho premises
No sc west Luke stses thirty feet win frame
Tor % S S So. % &c Walnut s1s ssreet t.a nsa;
f,ame hosss Sa an fSs sn lot
t..ge and lot No Gls Erie street for $l:+oo: cot
1age and lot No lug Ashley street for $l,45o; ten
aud Hoync streets, Mt $50 each; three lots on
Twenty-tirst street. near Oakley. at $+35 each;
and Oakley, ut $40U each. In their renting de-
partment the demand for houses is stlll greater
thhn the supply. this tirm having made, since
the middle of March. nearly 700 leases.
j. c. MAgill s. Co.. have made the following
sales: % feet on West Washington street. Is
CANT residences will ut once be erect ed; 80 feet
ou Wentworth avenue, near Fifty-ulntb street,
west front, sl,oN; p feet on Adams street, So
feet cnst Of Clinton, south front. s5.3;D, ail
cash: also two mouths since) the adjoining cor
ner Of Adams and Clinton streets, ~ by ~, for
500 al G e9s6: ,66 III The two last pieces, hsyinE
Clinton street, we're bought by the firm OF Blake,
Shaw s. Co.. the proprletors Of the Dakc baker-
lshmcnt, their business having outgrown tue
room and facilities of their large bakeries on
Clinton. near Randolph, and Clark. near Adams:
to certain branches OF their business. The new
building will be model i'll its WAY, and contain
everything possible in its line conducive to per-
fccuon In their business 1t will be without an
equal.
Edward Goodrtdge 4 Co. sold for H. Wanga-
man; Es9 building lni and Lot 4: Block T. Robbins
Tha May sale Of tne Neai- Estate Gali Board |
which time the managers viii otter 4 large Sec
uon'of property Of all descriptions. and MI Of |
which Is IN their opinion below Its real market !
value
Receiver Jackson, Of the Third National Bank.
ha5 been offered and has refused sl2 o0 for the
southern boundary OF the Lake Park,
In the sales of the week were y 9-l0xlG0 On
Mchigan !: axenue. n,e north Of Twenty-tourth
Southwest CORNER Of foupteenth . street assnm IS n:
s;sxl7l on Michigan avenue. sou1h of Four.
tecnth street, Ssl,:U0; G:x1S, on Wabash avenue.
near Sixtecuth street. Sl4.alO: 141x:HXJ on 1vGo
PARK ayenuc north Of F,,rtr-sixti, street. sis
600: 54xiGs on Wabash aventic. North OF Tweuty-
sixth street, improved. Sl3OVj: 2,;a} XIII on Va
bash avenue. south Of Madison street. ia pl.
:WA xlal on Wabash avenue. ADJOINING n|,uvc
win 5W:x5O feel in rear Es,. ;Ss]: =; 1ax1s1 ~
West Jackson street sou16wrst corner ~ IN m
coin. Sitr9: I1xIT4 OH Wnbash ayculIe nnrth ~ /
Thirty-fourth street. $13OiU: a4,:xs1 IN 'rhirtv-
second street. southeast corner OF Vcrf,on nyo- |
nue.. $500: 5oE rl5s5 improved. on Eorcst a.,e-
nue., between Thirty-thirl and Thirtv-fo,irth-
$500: ,5xli3s on West Congress wesr of ia,iin'
narrowed. sR0O1: asxi;S; in,nrnvcd on tnIian.,
avenue, south of Tbirty-fir;t street, s7nxI. az
1sg on West Adams. east Of i1inton. Il IN. -
Of Ogden avenue: 81, 400: 2ixfl6 on West Madi-
son. east OF Snciuot. $:,'u; @oxl23 on South
=: ino. sn rid, IN Wcst TweifIh ~, s,rao1 nn.th
east corner Of Canal, $6.NGl: .s,x1S31z i'm
proved, on West Aduus. cast ut Ashland
avehuS, si.e; triangle oi it!xiilxlls 4-lo
Of Scr;f Halstci. III se3. SaY1I imns"..nd
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