The morning call., 1892-04-25
REAL ESTATE MATTERS.
A Slight Increase i'm the Activity
of the Market.
Valuable Properties TO Be offered at Auc
tion-s9me Recent Sales in the
Country.

Trading in real estate was little liyelirr
the past week than it was the week before
Still the market is not so active as it shoaln.
be at this season Of the wear and doubtless
would be under more favorable conditions
The prime causes of the prevailing stagna-
tion have been commented upon too ofteiI
heretofore to require repetition. In alm6s;
every instance all desirable offerings find
ready purchaser at anything like reasonabl
figures.
AUCTION SALES.
larger attendance and more animated
bidding were noticeable at the auction sale,
held during the week than have been oh
served in quite a while. The attrac:ive
catalogues just issued by several OF the Leaf
ing local firms of property to be disposed of
at public vendue this and the folowif5c
week Will, no doubt, add very much to th.
the market In the way of interest as well az
activity.
Easton,; Eidridge & Co. will conduct two
auctions during the week. At their regular
sale on Tuesday they will offer very seIec
list OF city property, comprising improves
and un1mpr0ved business and residence i
YeStments in almost every portion of til.
metropolis. On Saturday The firm will ra7
the second OF series OF excursions to tie
interior. THIS time the trip viii be iu-
Sunnyside, on the North Pacific Railroad
three miles this side of San Rafael, wher.
100 choice villa re sidence sites will lie soiu
by public auction AS the run will take IN
a portion OF the be autiful Ross Valley il i
expected that very large number OF people
living in the city will avail themselves OF
the opportunity for a days outing.
McAfee, Baldwin & Hammond will hold
an auction sale May of OF 81 large-siz,.:
residence lots on Vallejo. Scott, Devsader
and surrounding streets. The advertise
ment which appeared in yesterdays CALI.
Is one OF the prettieSt and quaintest hits O
real estate advertising ever attempted. !
has been many day since any such prop
eTty has been offered as will be put up al
the sale. Every thing is favorable to the
buyer No lot will be less than 81 fee,
frontage. This is largely in his favor, and
he Is likely to profit Dy quiet market ana
low prices. The terms will be one-fftf
cash and from one TO four years on deferred
payments.
The announcement Of Won Rhein & Co
OF ANOTHER auction sale Of city rea ty APP
paared IN yesterdays CALL. The catalogue
comprises several of the choicest invest.
mentS u be found In the city, and ju1ginu
from the great success usually browning thr
efforts OF this well-known firm in that direc-
ton, the result OF the sale To be held on Mas
. may safely be pronounced entirely salts
factory IN advance.
AGENTS SALES.
Shainwald. Buckbee 81 Co. report the fol-
lowing saleS
Three lots on the south line Of Clav, be
tween Spruce and Maple, each 25xIO0, a
$1,000 apiece. Louis Lander, the pur-
chaser of one, will build on the same a.
once. a gers corner, 93:4 on Market
1888 on Castro aud a small frontage nu
Seventeeath, 90 feet deep, for So, 0U0 L..
30x137 g, north line of Union, near Stanyan,
Tor $500; house and lot north line BuSl.
east OF Webster, 22:11X90, to II. l.. Joa,'l-
imsen for $3.50; lot and improvements
SOpfh hatTU oil
Ness. lot % :6x120, to Mr.. Waters for $3.50
cottage and lot sos Fillmore, north OF N,
Aliister, 10 Mrs. Timothy ReardOn fo:
$1,000; half block in RchmGnd, fronting
on ID, for So COO: lot and improvements o.
W Washington. near Stanyan, % :3x127 IS. L,
Mrs. Sarah Kahn for $3.50.
B0yee, Toy d Co. report sale of lot 50xl2q
on Twenty-fourth avenue, south of b streei
Tor $500; two lots north side of Fell street.
103 feet west OF Masonic avenue, 2jxI37:6
for $4,000 each; six lots, 25xl20 each, n.a
1wenty-flith avenue. south OF b street, faT
S2400; lot 25X120 on east side of Sixth ave
nue., north Of Clement street. for S1025 : 10;
20 :6x12l. with improvements, north side q!
Clay street; near Walnut, for $4,000 to NJ
simpson OF the firm OF Simpson q Miller;
lot 25X115, with improvements, on Eurek
street, near Twenty first, for $500; lot u Is
X120 to rear street. with improvements
Elis street. near Laguna, for $1,000; lot ana
Improvements 1880 Eddy street, aud
651-53 Willow avenue, 5:9x120, for Sl1.5G0
The Carnall- HOPKINS Company report
the sale OF lot 81 :4Xl10, on the west side OF
Franklin street. between Pine and Calif0r-
mia, to Charles Gladding of the firm OF Glad
ding q Mclean for 5000. An elegant resi-
dence is 10 be erected on this property al
once.
The commercial agency department If
the same firm reports the sale OF a hotel in
Santa Cruz; also the sale of a red rubbe'
stamp factory. candy factory cigar-st0ro
aud hotel in San Francisco.
Jacob Heyman has sold four lots in block
722, facing the boulevard, two lots in IT,,
Heyman Tract, lots in block II, near
Colma, one lot on Arlington street and
three lots near Cortland ave.
Sol GetZ & Bro. report a very succeSsfu
week in the selling of property near The
park and the demand for park lots steadily
increasing.
They have JUST purchased another fine
block opposite Strawberry HID which they
are now placing in proper condition to sell
by grading and fencing the same. They re-
port the sale OF 6 lots in block 749 lots IN
block 73j, lots in block $50, = lots in block
161, lot in block Gas, lots in block 9l3. >
lots in block 709
George d. Shadburne Jr. reports the SAL.
of a lot 25x90 on the south side of Twenty
ninth street, rs feet east of Ellen, for S275
-Four original lots IN the Abbey Homestead.
1l5 and 40 by 100 each, and three acres near
San Jose, for 5000.
NO0NlE1 LANDS,
Agents handling country lands and out
side properties report a fair business Tor the
week. Numerous sales of cousidera Bile inl-
portaDce are well under way, and will no
doubt be coEsummated within the next few
days.
Speek & Scharff report an active week in
country properties. They report fair de-
mand for small farms in the bay counties.
and owners willing TO make concessions in
order TO effect sales. member of the firm
will soon leave for Chicago TO bring out Z
colony of Germans. who are to locate In
Kern County. For the week the folio Niag
sales: To Ernest Graetz. so acres near
Castroyille Tor $500; &. +. Hazeton, 90
ncres at jacksonville. $500; Vera Greth.
house and lot at Lorin for 5000; Thomas
Cunningham, two houses at Mayfeld for
$500, and John kiikencranz and wife, s.
acres and improvements at Napa City for
$1,000.
NOTES.
III. Shain valid of Shainwald Buekbee &
Co., the well-known Montgomery-street real
estate firm, has gone TO Europe on an cx-
tended pleasure trip. Mr.. Shaiu wald viii
take in all the principal cities of the world