Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-31
QUIET BUT STRONG.

Realty in . Better Position Than q Yea
AEo-Advantase Of Buying Ready
Made Houses-values Kept Down b,
Rapid Transit-Law Governing wooder
Buildings
The week closes on a strong but feature
less real estate market. Trading in small
lots has been fair, but large properties have
been slow. There was q ood inquiry, how.
ever, which will crystalline later on. II
should not be inferred from the statement a
the outset that the market is on its back.
Brokers report more business and q more
confident feeling that a year ago. This is
| always dull season. Many OF the people
who give tone and character to the marke
| are out OF the city. Industrial troubles also
have a depressing influence. These ar,
| Temporary obstacles That owners are no
| concessions. There Is so much money seek
| ing investment. and real estate is in sucl
high favor, that 1t Is haZarding nothing tc
say the fall trade will be of large pro
portions.
Realty shows strong front. A waiting
will soon give way to an active market.
C. II. Love expects to close deal in down
town property tomorrow, and also one in
Allegheny.
Six permits were issued yesterday for the
same number of improvements, all esti
| mated to cost 5000. The largest was for
Frank Becker has bought business prop
erty on Market street. McKeesport, lot 35x
l4O. for $1,000.
A lot has been purchased in Copeland by
Stewart Bros. upon which they will estab.
lisn planning mill and lumber yard.
Property on Bailey avenue. Mt. Washing
ton, is held at SO to $50 q loot front, about
equal to Oakland prices.
S1,1r, R,ou nusa ,.1o
Locust street, Allegheny, is approaching
completion. The cost OF ground and build
ings is close to sl25, 900.
1t is reported that Prof. Sloane, of Prince
ton College, will build another row OF u
houses in Hazelwood.
Baxter. Thompson & Co. report q good in
quiry for lots in the Brushton district.
There is a dicker I'm progress for q property
on Water street, below the Monongahela
House, but it is kept very quiet;
A Wood street banker is making arrange
Oakland district.
Blacd & Baird sold for the Boulevard syn
dicate to Myra R. Beeckman lots Nos. 81 and
80 on Mcpherson street. Boulevard place, ITO
feet front by 40 in depth, for S7,7o0 The
purchaser will at once commence the erec-
tion of four fine stone dwellings thereon.
Baxter, Thompson & Co sold lot No 160.
Bank of Commerce addition plan, Brushton
station, fronting % feet on Brushton avenue
bv 100 feet to a 20-foot alley. for 81. 200 cash;
also a property on Mahon avenue, Thir.
teenth wari. consisting OF three frame
houses, with lot 4xl00 for 50. 100 cash.
John K Ewing s. CO. sold to William Jen-
kinson Tor Joseph {. DeNoon and George B.
shippley piece Of ground containing 2A
nn, on Reerne Gsns and
Wayne and Chicago Railroad. on the line OF
the California avenue electric road, for
s12, 900 cash. The above firm reports q good
demand for acreage in Bellevue.
A. NJ. Tressel & Co. sold for Wilson Yeis-
ley, OF Scenery Hill, Washington county, q
new frame house, situated on Aliquippa
street, Pittsburg. to D. W. Garret for s., 500
Reed B. Coylc Co. sold for the Bellevue
Land Company to Matthew L. Fleming lot
No. in their sunnyside plan at bellevue,
Pittsburg, FIT. Wayne and Chicago Railroad,
having u frontage of so feet on Bayne ave-
nue. and extending back $50 feet to an alley,
for $500.
Charles Somers & Co. sold for Presley s.
Brown to Lawrenceville business man q
lot situated on Pacific avenue, having q
frontage of 80 feet by depth of 130 feet, for
S225o.
Companies report the following sale of lots
at Kensington, the manufacturing city on
the Allegheny Valley Railroad: David A.
Trachenberg and James Charles Smith,
for 1878; George F. Tins, Kensington, lot IL
block l6. $722: Frank F. Long, Kensington, lot
So block 8, $3.50: Eugene Borin, j Jeanette, lots
l4ol, 1902. 140S. l404, block 90. 81, $50; Joseph
s637; Desiren Visslet, Jeanette, lots l4l2 and
l4l3 block 20. $l,275: Richard DeBruyn, jean
nette, lot 400. block %, sS37 so: Alex and
Charles E. McGrew, Kensihgton, south 10
reet of lot 90 and north Is feet of lot ~, block
s, for sl.45O; Alexander Krusie Pittsburg,
south hal. Of lot IS. block Is. $40; John Cal
win Smith. Bellevue, lot "a, block l. $3.50;
Charles and Christine Schafer. Pittsburg,
lots 80. block 15 sSe7 so. 4l6 block Is, s6s3 IS
$40 block 2S s627 So and 1882 block 30, for s625;
Mrs. Mary Fein, Pittsburg, lot 2l9. block 26
block 26, 81, lO5: Joseph Ravella and Pas.
quale Morona, Wllmerding north half of lot
20, block 9, $s75; Daniel Klemonski, nortn
half OF lot %. block & tS26 II. 7. Ewing, Ken