The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-01
is MORE HOPEFUL.
The. Real Estate Market
+. Improving.
PEOPLE TALKING BUSINESS
::
!: No Tangible Results, However.
=. Are Noticed.
. FOR CONFIDENCE IS YET POOR.
;. Auction Sales That Will Test Values.
- Some Large Transfers Made.
Building Notes.
FOR CONFIDENCE IS YET poor

; ne situation of the real estate market
= IS more hopeful than il has been for some
months past, although there are no tangi-
! Die results as yet from the improved feel
*lng. NO doubt the final adjustment of
>: taElH legislation has had a good effect on
the minds of people, removing doubts as
Ito what they should 10. Uncertainty is
often more prolific of disastrous results
than the reality in real estate affairs, but
now that it is gone prospects seem brighter
: than before.
-. Buyers and sellers do not talk about real
estate as they did during the dull times.
They appear TO mean business-a good
sign, inasmuch as it indicates returning
confidence There is feeling, too. that
prices have reached zero. and anything
lower may not be expected. so it is about
time to close transactions. Quite good
business is being done In exchanging
country lands for city property.
= Oakland agents are more than pleased
over the change for the better
IN their business. They say that an &C
tfVity has sprung up without being
thought of, many men from San Francisco buy
ing lots and building across the bay. In Ala
media, Berkeley and Oakland a good move
:ment is taking place and prices are well sus.
tanned.
Among the large sales this week are the fol-
Pine and Monroe streets, between Stockton
and Powell. 40x68:6 feet, with the four-story
frame building thereon, known as the Devon
shire House, SOS, 900; lot on north side of
Golden Gate avenue, 6S:9 feet west from
Pierce street, 6S:9x137:6 feet, $4,000; lot
forming the northeast corner OF ID street and
Sixth avenue, 80 :6X1S4 feet, with the Two
story frame building thereon, known as The
Richmond, $4,000.
Frederick Deger OF Oakland has bought
from Adolph Sutro the southwest corner of
Market
and ITO feet on Six b, for S260,0O0.
A public auction which is already creating
considerable interest is the sale 10y Won Rhen
& Co., to be held Thursday, September
ID, al their Offices. AS a really good selection
OF properties has been made this auction
ought 10 afford fair criterion OF the market.
The offerings include a lot 50x100, west line
of Fillmore street, near Suffer; 6S:9X137 IS,
= ills Turk, twelve rooms, modern; 27x87:6,
1905 and 1864 California, two modern flats
20K60, 1928 Pacific street. present improve
-: menls old; northwest corner OF Leavenwortb
and Beach, 1876 on each street, subject to
continuation OF court; 49x1SO, irregular depth,
line OF Guerrero, between Eighteenth aud
; Nineteenth; 50X114, south line of Tween y-sev-
enth, 1929 east OF Ellen; 50x7S, 322 RItch,
between Brannan and Townsend, Third and
Fourth, twelve fats; 25xS0, 800 Seventh, be-
tween Folsom and Harrison, two flats; 25x80,
o. Quinn street, between Ridley and Four
IeeRth and Guerrero and Dolores; 25X80, 1853
Tehama, between Second and Third, four fats
OF three rooms each; 50xSO, 756 Brannan,
between Sixth aud Seventh, three-StOry ware
hobsei 20X82:6, 2105 Mason, with twO-story
house for TWO families; 25x8O, 1912 and
1872 SCasrO, between Twenty NTH and
IweF 4klAf tb, two Hats; two lots, each 25x
.lQs. Se llAa of Iwenty-thIrd street. 10 feet
eFst EegauL, two lots, each 25:10x114, on
rtn llne OF Iwenty-tourth, ESQ feet west OF
souElassi also nor beast corner OF Twenty
't1opgth and Bellevue, ia on Bellevue 10y 125
: on Il wenty fourth
.-:Eastou, Eldridge s. Co. will test the market
. next Tu6sgZy with selected catalogue of city
real estate at auction, follows: Suffer-
street improved property, Nos. POLO, 2O12 and
20IA, west OF Fillmore; McAlllster street.
near Fillmore, Nos. 1910 and 1012, north line
McAllister; Alamo Heights, southwest corner
:: OF Scott and Fulton streets Opposite Alamo
-. plaza, lots; downtown property, on north
west corner OF Folsom aud Rodney streets, be-
tween First and Second; central property, on
nOrhline Of Jackson street, west OF Powell /;
Mission home, 225 Duncan street, west OF
Guerrero; Suffer street, No 2723, east Of Gen.
.Iral avenue; Golden GAZE Park lot on south
line of Waller street. east OF Masonic avenue;
Mission, large corner, the northwest corner Of
Seventeenth street and Clara avenue, west Of
Castro.
80. Sol Getz g. Bro. report the following sales
this week: Lot 25x120 on sOutheasterly line
OF Vienna avenue, 20 feet from nOrthR esteTly
line OF Persia avenue, for $500; 25Xl20 on
east line OF Fourteenth avenue, 1913 feet south
= OF 3 street. for 1925; 50x12O on east line of
IhlrlytslXth avenue. $50 feet south OF j street,
for $500; 25x100 on south line OF street,
1926 feet west OF Thirty-seventh avenue, Tor
$500.
As many as 81 building contracts were re-
corded during August, aggregatIng S456, 435.
Luis is an Improvement upon the same month
OF 1898 by exactly SoO,OOO. The number Is
97,.agGInst 70, showing, in connection with The
AMOUNT OF money involved, that many homes
are going up
The weeks contracts are as follows: two
story frame on Sanchez, near Seventeenth,
cost $1,000; a dwelling on Lyon street, near
Washington, cost $1,000; frame residence on
:. sacramento street, near Buchanan, cost $1,000;
improvements on the northeast corner OF
twenty NTH ana ShoJwell streets, cost S25OO;
additions TO building on Eddy, near Steiner
home II hire
-:streei, near Twenty-third. cost $1,000; i'm.
proving the temple on Turk street, near Tay-
!. Tor, cost $1,000; a cottage on Castro street
near Twenty nth, cost $1,000