New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-20
REAL ESTATE.
.,,.1I TRANSACTIONS THE BACKBONE
OF THE MARKET.

,.s,xrss WELL DISTRIBUTED AND AN IMPROVE
MINT IN THE AUCTION ROOMS NOTICE
ARLE-soME NEW SALES
.,,r. from the interesting Columbia trade.
e. really belonged to the business OF the pre-
VIZ uook the realty market in the last six days
Uous ,.c,nallv concerned with small transactions.
We ,o,roverent in the aucton-rooms was well
o. feature and the business transacted at pri-
" contract was we'll distributed through the
",,,s sections OF the city. But the aggregate
vi vi, while It was good in comparison with the
IT,. q, the opening fall trade did not Improve
'. oc,obers record DIS might have oeen ehpect.u
OF .ons the speculative purchases. expensive SITES
Asod for Improvement with high-cass apart
m.,.houses continued TO maintain their prom.
IT, including a parcel in Central PARK west anu
".S.- IN Riverside Drive. The investment p"i-.
SUI comprised a marked number OF nathousss'
. end without stores. and also incIuoeu wv
,,,rsss buildings. one OF which, al any '"'e' ~
-. ~ the six-hgure class.
w.. q, private houses at this time or year NO"
A not make up the kind of business 'nn'
o,sss well for the market in general nor "'e
-. ~ lots 10 operators and builders vi VIM
go have been enough. What IL wanted 10"
'ne,' mat the outside investor has become IN
eV." g., rea, estate and OF this II must be con-
teres hsro Is little What brokers generaIE .,e~
tssS mos, satisfactory indication iSr ,he ,earbed
g ". nrlces In the stock Market nav o,har
n e,S which challenges comparison VII" o'"e'
feds OF BUSINESS in the auctionroons save
me ~,iisncA OF confidence returned, tnousn .lo
..sr Of the market was strongly GOsSe' ,n The
~ professional element was predonlilals i ~
In, e on the other hand the properly
s.red were well protected ana me the bid
were O. started by the parties in interest a. NJ
ures which preGhnHHne,11 as Sufficiently brisk
soae he severest critic Of the market IN Vpa
uniaTy 6sehundred and seventy mint hist and bel
moala'e near onc-hundred o5i
ton-aNyfi No l2S East Seventeerth-st ana No ~
Ma, Or4-hundred- and hfth-st. ofereo oy piI
plot in Kelly and hundTeG
"a sivfv-severth SITS. was solG Oy W. ,r,s
sny OF the ,wenty-six parcels oered a. eTs
aN 70 outsiders, three were auIoaie ~ oree.,
vNho i,,a wee The executors sale OF the Gu!on
.sie and that for Frederic X CouGet nS S Coses
By ~' ~ he narceis were bid in or withdrawn
pc; on the south SIDE OF una Bathrate ayes
,EIo1-ss..' GOOD price because Of the activity IN
,hat Immediate neisheorhooo
LATEST PRIVATE SALES
Crow & Taylor sold yesterday to A van morn
s,Yvyesant the handsome new apartnen'-"ouso "
,,A southwest corner Of the boulevard ana oi.'-
That there is a strong DE-
- t- hurd{ngs Of this kind ha. been plain re-
nsn,iv and il was said on good authority Sesrer
Ssv mat negotiations were in progress !or ,ne sd
o.. .. 'so o ne lass al exceptionally good prices
We 4, was also reported yesterday mat we-known
nm 81 az ~ valuable Broadway corner in the dry
goods district owner taking Il part dr NE fbe
ira, 81 ,on roG however. be obtained.
Robert Westcott sold the vacant pl0t lroHs,ne ~
af,h-st. 70 Peter Talbot. who Will improve 1t with
a seven-story apartment-house ..a
pe-rard Klingenstein and Joseph Fox purchasea
20 ti,o tbreesforv buildings eSxloo No. loS 70 III
seven,h-st from the Rives estate. Inc price Is
Ffancs unaerhl SOLD for the ETsdsrto BPon
iSs $ fest south Q: Eghteent5h5st; so,ono, Marx
tourth-st 40 feet west Of Park-ave. 70 G A.
Weber. who Will erect three hve-story owe'rne-
Barn Barnet, Co sold for Pierce Barnett to George
Brown No. 1853 Lexington-ave.; fye-story oro"n-
The -Marx-Nathan Company bought through
in an ne south Side Of one undred-and-hfty--
,hird-et 10 feet east 81 Eiehth-ave .
hous4--22xss al the northwest corner OF orchard
'p Brvs = Kennedy vii sell Under foreclosure IN
the Broadway Salesroom Tuesday az noon; IN
r1 t 1a Me eISe1 Ellen The HagEq 20 s East
Twenty-ninth-st on plot 25xsss on me so sId
the Parcel IN feet square in West Farms Borough
~ The Bronx known on the map OF Belmont w
he he suit ana sSaw. Fisk & sotesbury plaintiffs
attorneys.
STATISTICS OF THE WEEK.
Forty-six parcels Of city realty were reported
sold last week at private contract. and the con-
slierstions were given in eighteen cases. these
amounting altogether 70 sl.sS 800
In Manhattan and The Bronx the auction sales
for the week realized total Of .S0s ss4
compared with ts27o23 IN the corresponding week
o. last wear and In Brooklyn the auction sales re-
allied $3.50 e52 as compared with $3.50 $50 In the
same period last year.
These tables compare the conveyances. mortgages
rrO1c hro0 q hS
the corresponding weeks Of this and last year
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX
CONVEYANCES