The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-24
REAL ESTATE NEWS.

Real Estate Dealers are beginning to
believe that business is going to be
brisk this fall. There is a good demand
for houses with all the modern improve
ments, and there is not so much grumb-
ling on the part of houseseekers as there
was in the spring. Houses on the Hill
are again in great demand, notwith-
standing the unusual amount of building
hat has been done there since February
last. Dealers willingly acknowledge that
the County Road has had a tendency to
give the Hill a boom. Houses, expensive
and cheap are being built, upon and near
it. Far seeing spectators are pre-
pared to meet part of the demand for
houses by having erected a large mum
Der of small ones which they can rent
to an advantage at S25 and even $40 per
month, This priced house still has the
Hill are not idle in any such number
rs down town. Down town rentals
have been kept up by agents. Owners
have refused to lower them, declaring
that they preferred empty houses to
tenanted ones where there is no money
in it. AS for the demand for building
dealers believe that there will be lively
sales after all this fall and winter. The
great difficulty this summer mas been
that the market has been flooded with
cheap property by faint hearted owners
who were anxious to realize. Sellers are
fewer now, and prices are holding their
own. Dealers insist that it is an old
trick of building operators to wait until
fall or winter before buying property to
build the following summer.
1.-THE Evening Post says:-,"The inter,
est in road making that has been created
in New Jersey is a source of consider
able satisfaction among Agricultural De-
partment officials. General Rov Stone. in
charge of the Road Inquiry Bureau has
gone to Morristown to watch the work
of matchmaking roads in Morris County,
for which $5Gc, 900 will be expended.
When Hudson County eXpendS $500, 900
in m~acadamizing its roads. giving horse
owners a decent place to drive, people
now residing in New York will flock
here and profit by the increased adj
more to give Jersey City a boom tina
anything on the calendar.
G. H. Wayne is building at No. 1876
Harrison avenue a three-story frame, at
a cost of $3.50.
When Alderman Patrick Connolly an
nounced his intention of building two
ive-story brick flats on Grove and
Seventeenth streets, his neighbors shook
their heads and said it was liking dump
ing money in the street. They believed
he would never tenant them, owing to
the fact that the northern section of the
city is so scantily populated, and for
that reason so neglected by the city
been begun and .appplications have
been made for nearly all the flats. Mr..
Connolly's enterprise will put an end
to shanties in the locality.
w. A. Smith is spending $4,665 on a
dwelling in course of erection at Tonnele
and Pavonia avenues 1t is to be a
three-StOfy frame.
on the Mill Road near Academy street.
John McKeenan is building three three
story frame dwellings at a. cost OF $4,000.
Mary Anderson is investing S1,4O0 in a
The report is again going the our
that the Mckenzie estate proposes erect
ing a big five-story fiat on the south
western corner of Mercer and Grove
streets, opposite the City Hall.
Henderson street property, between
MONTGOMERY street and Newark avenue,
increases in value with the laying of
every stone on the new City Hall. Own
ers won't sell.
Work was begun yesterday on the
archway of the main entrance to the
City Hall.
The exclusive announcement in yester-
days News of the proposed improve
ment of Van Worst Park, delighted the
residents Of that locality.
There is a scheme on foot among. the
owners of property on Grove street,1rom
Newark avenue to Grand street, to have
that ~thoroughfare paved with asphalt.
1t would certainly make the prettiest
street in the city, as it is one OF the
widest.
Transfers.
Emma Abbott to Dernis r higgins for $500,
land northeast side of l}r own place, i5' feet
northwest of Avenue E.
Cyrus F. Lutrel to Horace T. Ayees for 81,
land and premises east siie of lictGvn avenue,
SO feet south of Union street.
Henrietta Mohna to Bernard Book for SIG, 500,
land and premises southwest corner of Fourth
and River streets. Hoboken.
Dwight b, Fuller ct uS. to Care ]. Ekholm
for $500, land east side of Devon street, 1853
feet south of Quincy avenue. Kearny.
Dwight e. Fuller to William H. Settle for
1921. so, land on the south side of lakewood
avenue. rs feet east Of Hickory street, Kearny.
Emma L. Winaut to William NJ. Fraser for
81, 500, land and premises south side of Fifth
street, 16 feet west OF Erie street.
Christian Muller to Matzell Mayer for 800,
land south side of Union place, 125 feet west
of Bergenwood avenue, Township of Union,
Mortgages.
Horatio Allen to Ignaz Etzell. on land and
premises east side of Davis avenue, Kearny,
for 81, 100.
Alice Goodman TO Charles f. Young, on lot
81, Block II, West Hoboken, for $500.
Manning L. simmons to Harriet Sexton, on
land and premises on Palisade avenue, for