The San Francisco call., 1898-08-17
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 REAL ESTATE Prospects Encouraging for the Future. MANY SALES NEGOTIATED TRANSACTIONS FOR THE PAST
 SIX MONTHS. A Review of the Records, New Build ing Contracts, Recent Sales and
 General Realty
 Notes.
TRANSACTIONS FOR THE PAST
 SIX MONTHS.

Real estate is still slowly undergoing the anticipated change which the brokers generally prophesied for 1t at the close of the summer season. Business in every department is becoming brighter, and sales. both large and small, increasing in number.
 During the past seven days many nego- tiationS involving considerable value were successfully made and a number planned for the future. Among the large sales re- 1 gently recorded was that of the property | situated on the corner of Mason street and O'Farreu alley. which has changed owners three times within the past two or three months. It was sold by the flrm Of A. M. Speck & Co. to ex-Superintendent or Streets AShworth for an estimated price of S22, 300.
 Building seems to be continually on the l advance, and many contracts were let | during the past week The record shows | a perceptible increase in operations all over the city, and the total number of records of the past three months by near ly half. The number of mortgages during the week was unusually large, and the to- tai amount of the pledge greater in value than the record for the preceding week. The number and value of the real estate | transactions recorded during the first six months of the present year, according to Edwards Criterion, were l207 sales, amounting to 4,230, ,9S4.
 1 The totals for previous years are sum marized as follows: For the year 1897 there were 2756 sales, amounting to s10, | 302 SS2; for the year 1896 there were 2S54 sales, amounting to $9716, 699; for 1895 there were BIOS sales, aggregating 3,392, ,6O9; for 1894 there were 5000 sales, aggregating S12,- 33s273; and for 1893 there were S425 sales, aggregating S11, ,995 ,z91.
 REVIEW OF THE RECORDS.
 During the week there were forty-six mortgages and trust deeds recorded amounting to s19S, ,419r For the same pc riod tifty-five releases and reconveyances 1 passed to record in the total sum of $346,- 1 035.
 The principal mortgages and trust deeds were recorded as follows: By E. B. Pond and H. c. Campbell, trustees of the San | Francisco Savings Union to Emma F. 1 Daniel, s2Q, 200, on property in the Western Addition Block 19. situated on the south- east corner of Jackson and Polk streets. east 112:6 by south lA :SA; by James Wade to William H. Kinread s4O00 for two years at per cent. on property in the Western | Addition Block GOT, situated on the south east corner of Hayes street and Central avenue, east 50 by south 100; by the San | Francisco Savings Union to Joseph II. | Mahoney, S9oOO on property in the One Hundred Blocks. 35s and 36o, situated Grammar street, 12l feet northeast of Third, northeast 66 by northwest 80, and the northeasterly line of Third, 75 feet northwest of Townsend, northwest 90 by northeast SO; by Elizabeth G. Baldwin to Arthur F. and Adelaide M. Bridge, S45OO for two years at 619 per cent, on ,property in on the southwest corner of Devisadero l and Union streets, west 100 by south 100; J. 1 tate of Helen B. Blinn, to Lydia c. Rice, $5o00 for one year at 10 per cent, on prop, erty in the Fifty Vara Block PAS, situated on the northerly line of Pine street. 105 1 feet east of Leavenworth, east 75 by north 137:6 by Katie E. Matthews to P. D: and Mary Code, $l0,OOO for one year at s per cent, on property in the Mission Blocks 73 and 90. situated respectively on the west l erly line of Valencia street, SS feet north west AS by south IA; by the Security Saw | ings Bank to J. H. and Mary E. VOL. on property in the One Hundred Block 34O, situated on the corner of First and Mis- 1 sion streets, northeast 235 by northwest 1894; by the Hibernia Savings and Loan Fifty Vara Block 9OS. situated on the 1 northerly line of Sutter street, 1876 feet west of Hyde, west 2S:4 by north 1876. The principal releases and reconveyanees are as follows: From the German Savings and Loan Society to Charles G. Terrill, s32. 800 for 1 year at 61A per cent on prop erty in Mission Block 20, situated on the southwesterly corner of Valencia and west 75, north 100 and east 165; from the 1 German Savings and Loan Society to An tonic B. Gonzales, s16,000 on property In on the southerly line of Ellis street 131:9 feet west of Van Ness avenue, west 6S by south 120; from the Hibernia Savings and ated as above, $15 900; from the Hlbernia Savings and Loan Society to Leah and | Philip Meyer. Sl05,oOO on property in the ner of Mission and First streets, south east 1S7:6 by northeast 1376; on the cor | northeast 100; on the northwest corner of l Third and Stevenson streets, northwest 9 | by southwest 75 and on the southwesterly l line of Third street, 45 feet southeast of | Stevenson, southeast p by southwest 75; from the Italian-Swiss Mutual Loan As sociation to s; and Amelia Cohn 5000 on ! in fhn d | 203, situated on the easterly line of La guna street, 4S feet north of Ellis. north 24 by east 75; from the Germania Bank and Loan Association to Calvin F.. Knick- l erbrocker, $5000 on property in the West ern Addition Block 523, situated on the easterlye line of Baker CT street, S2:6 feet l from Elizabeth C.. Baldwin to A. F. Bridge, S6000 on property in the Western Addition Block 4s0s situated on the south l west corner of Devisadero and Union streets, west 100 by south 137:6; from the San Francisco Mutual and Loan Associ- ation to Thomas Ross, s4000 on property avenue 200 feet south of Clement street, south 9 by west 120; from the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society. to, David B. Faktor, s95oo on property in the Western Addition Block 366. situated on the west erly line of Fillmore street 6S:9 feet south of Fulton south 34:41a by west 137:6; from | the San Francisco Savings Union to Jos l eph H. Mahoney, distributee of the estate of Mary Mahoney, S10,00O on property in 1 the ODe biOChS o0J dHu ooU, SlLu- ated respectively on the northwesterly | line of Grammar street 120 feet northeast of Third, northeast 66 feet by northwest 80 feet and the northeasterly line of Third street, 75 feet northwest of Townsend | northwest 90 by northeast 80; from the California Title Insurance and Trust Smith, $24, 900 on property in the 5O-vara Block 7e,. situated on the ,northwesterly line of Market street 24O;S feet southwest of Montgomery street; from the San Francisco Savings Union to Theresa Mur- phy. s67OO on property in the One Hun dred Block Ss4 and the Western Addition Block 2SS, situated respectively on the corner of Natoma and Russ streets, south west 9 by southeast 75 and the southerly Buchanan, west ZIG by south 12o; from F. B. Pond and H. c. Campbell, trustees of the San Francisco Savings Union to Emma Daniel $165 900 on property in the Western Addition Block 19, situated on the southeast corner of Jackson and Polk streets, east S7:6 bv south 127:8H
 NEW BUILDING CONTRACTS.
 Westerly line of Guerrero street, 260 feet south of Twenty-fourth. carpentry brick work. timing, glazing, stairs. etc, for