Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP.
A FEW BIG; TRANSACTIONS IN THE
FINAL STAGES OF NEGOTIATION.

A FEW BIG TRANSACTIONS IN THE
FINAL STAGES OF NEGOTIATION.
A Sale Of Second Avenue Property at Rather
Low Price-David Arnheim Buys tho
Nimick Property ana VIII Improve It.
reports From the Building Inspector
and the agents.
The realty market yesterday brought
nothing Of very great Importance
to the surface-that is, for publi-
cation. The many deals of great
Importance which are known to be under
way, and sie likely to be consummsted at
any time, are still in such shape as would
not warrant their publication. Negotia-
tions for the sale OF large piece of prop
erty located in the heart of the city are in
progress. and, as the only obstacle in the
way is the difference of a few hundred dol
lars, the transaction Is likely to be closed
in few days. 1t is the intention of the in
tending purchasers to improve the property
by the erection of a large business block in
case the deal goes through, which will add
value to the property in the immediate
A new plan of lots located in very beau
tiful portion of the city. is about ready to be
placed on the market. but as the agent de-
sires the publication of the details to bo
withheld for q few days the location of the
plan, the houses to be erected thereon, size
OF lots prices, etc, cannot be given at the
moment
The report published in one or two of the
morning papers to the effect that Ira N.
Birchfeld, the well-known agent, was lying
in very critical condition at Denver, hav-
ing been stricken down with typhoid fever
while attending the convention Of the
Knights Templar in that city, and was not
likely to recover. is untrue. A telegram
father this morning reading: "I am we'll;
sickness was not in the least dangerous;
send me copy Of THE PTrTsBURe DISPATCH
daily" which clearly demonstrates chat Mr..
B1rchfield Is well and wants the news.
gentleman who probably makes any
where from 81, 500 to 81, 500 per year talked to
The DISPATCH to-day as follows: "The re-
marks mari in your real estate column about the
need of moro medium priced houses and the
opportunity offered capitalists to make
good thing by building some somewhere
within easy reach and placing them on the
market, were timely. l would buy q small
house, with modern conveniences, at rea-
sonable price, and know a number of others
who would do the same thing. There Is u
crying demand for such properties. and It Is
money does not make preparations to meet
Low-Priced City Property.
David Arhheim, the dealer in horses and
mules, has purchased the old Nimick prop
erty on Second avenue, just below Ferry
street. 1Oox76 feet. for $4,000. The property
is unimproved. having been used as a metal
yard for years, but even at that the price is
considered low. Mr.. Arnheim will improve
1t, however, and when the improvements are
completed it will probably be brought up to
the average for that section. At present the
Arnheim sales stables are located on the
Fulton property on Second avenue. and Mr..
Arnheim's lease runs for four years yet.
Building Permits.
A building permit was issued yesterday to
Messrs. Arbuckle & Co. for the erection of a
six-story brick business building on Seventh
street, between Penn avenue and Duquesne
way, cost $65,00o. Other permits issued
were: John Bloszok, a two-story frame
slaughterhouse and dwelling, Spring alley,
near Twenty-seventh street. cost $1,000.
Henry Rieke, q frame two-story dwelling,
2777 Yew street, cost s.. $50. Michael Hays, a
frame twostory dwelling, Carnegie avenue
near McCandless avenue, cost s., 700. John
Conway, frame two-story dwelling, Harri-
SON street, near Fifty-sixth street, costsl $50.
John Utzig, four connected brick two-story
dwellings, Dresden alley, between Fifty
third and Fi'ty-fourth streets, cost s., $50 for
all. j. r. Pearson, brick two-story dwell
$500. Thomas Means. frame two,story
dwelling, Almeda street, near GIenwood
avenue, cost $1,000. Jacob Newer, frame
Larimer avenue, cost $500 Mrs. c. J. Aiken,
brick two-story addition to dwelling, Am
berson avenue, between Castlenan and
Ellsworth avenues, cost s., ,00O
Reports From the Agencies.
EFT. schaffner. the Hill Top real estate
agent, reports the sale OF lot No. 2l511 in the
South View plan, on Phillips avenue to NJ.
+. Cassidy for $3.50. Also sold lot No. zig, on
same street, to Thomas Minahan for $3.50.
C. H. Love sold lot No. ~ in the Hunter
plan, Williamsburg, to Mrs Jennette Giles
pie for 800.
John K Ewing & Co. sold for Samuel Nc
Cain, to Mrs. Kate McKeon, a lot 27xl03 on
Perrysville avenue, Second ward, Allegheny,
for ST. 600 cash.
Black & Baird sold to Anton John, for the
Peoples Savings Bank, a small frame dwell
ing on lot 20xl37 feet on Pearl street,
Bloomfield, being No. 50 in tho Woolslayer
plan, for 81, 6e0.
MI. Nicholas Hartman, of l15 to lf9 Franks
town ave-, has purchased in full the prop
ertv he has been partly interested in for
some time. well known as the Hartman
House, and proposes shortly to thoroughly
renovate the house. He will also build an
addition to the building at cost of $1,000
Ior improvements.
John f. Sweeny sold for A. Campbell a
block OF nearly three acres of lots, adioin-
ing the Thirty-f1rst ward, having frontage
of 500 feet on Howard avenue and extending
back an average distance of 100 feet to q %
foot allev. Mr.. Sweeny represents the pur-
erection OF houses on the entire plot, which
will soon be placed on the market for sale.
The Burrell and Kensington Improve
ment Companies report the following sale
OF lots at Kensington, the new manufactur-
ing city on the Allegheny Valley ailway:
Edward S. Kennedy. Pittsburg, south 16 feet
OF lot 20 and north 10 feet of lot a. block 5,
for 81, ,50S: Martin Piotrowskf, Pittsburg,
north 20 feet of lot 6s, block g. for s375; Louis
Sappet Midway, Pa, lot 437, block 25 for
1852 80; Mrs. Nsttie Barnes, Kensington, lot