The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-08
REALTY IN GOOD DEMAND.
SALES OF PROPERTY AT COURT
HOUSE CAUSED LIVELY BIDDING.

The Market in better Condition, So
Far as These Sales Are Concerned,
Than Has Been the Case for Sew
eraI MOnths-ReaI Estate Men Ex-
plain This by the Poor Quality OF
Offerings on Previous Sales Days.
Houses and Lands All Over the
City Brought Good Money-sherIfT
Sweeny Sold Much Property I'm
der Executions for Taxes, Most of
Which Was bought in by the
County.
Yesterday was sales day at the Court
House, and at Il O'Clock. the usual
hour of sale, a crowd of prospective pur-
chasers, rather in excess of the ordinary,
had gathered.
The tone of the market was firm and
good, decidedly better from every aspect
than has been the case at the last two
sales days, and the properly offered
brought good prices.
This improvement in the tone of the
real estate market, as it finds expression
at these sales was commented on
generally by all those present who
are engaged ip the business, though one
of the best posted of them explained the
betterment by saying that the offerings
on these sales days have recently been
very poor and that such property would
not attract the better class of purchasers
The real estate market for city property
this gentleman said, is always assured
and the failure to secure good prices is
the fault of the property and not of the
buyers. They are always willing and even
anxious to buy when the quality of the
offerings is such as to appeal to their com
mercial sense of prospective advantage
The first sale was made by Auctoneer I.
D. LaRoche, who offered a Judgment OBJ
tanned in the Superior Court of Screvcn
county, in favor OF the Chatham Bank,
against Virgil II. Burns. The Judgment
was for $4,000, principal, 81, 12140. interest
to the date of rendition, and $10S5, costs Of
court. The judgment was sold to r. D. &
J. M. Overstreet, guardians of Wnton
Overstreet for $2,20o. Mr.. LaRoche also
sold a $500 bond of the CITY of Savannah
to Fred c. WHY at ia. Ten shares OF the
stock of the Savannah Brewing Company
were sold TO Edward Demere at 1O5.
Mr.. c. II. Dorset made a number of
sales. He sold the two houses known as
l.. w. Vogel, for Sl50O each The two
houses together occupy lot forty-f1ye feet
in width, fronting on Andersen street, and
having a depth of 105 feet. The house ana
lot at 215 Tenth street, west, between Bar
nard and Jefferson, were sold 10 Mr.. M. j.
Solomons for $l,600. The house standing
on the property is a two-story residence,
containing about eight rooms.
The two brick residences at POS and 30
Hall street, west, were sold to Mr.. James
McGrath by Mr.. Dorset for So $50 each
These residences are situated on Hall
street, between Barnard and Tattnall. One
of the houses was sold first, with the privi-
lege 10 the purchaser of taking both at the
same figure, and Mr.. McGrath took adj
vantage of this right secured him by his
bid. The property is subject to an annual
ground rent due the Mayor and aldermen
of the city of Savannah, which is, of
course, subject to redemption at the VIII
of the owner.
A lot of land on Bolton street, near the
corner of Habersham, with a frontage of
80 feet and rectangular depth to a lane
of Jos feet, was sold to Mr.. ]. j. O'Nein
for 1890. Mr.. Isaac Beckett, as agent for
a purchaser whom he objected to disclos-
ing, purchased two houses on Arnold
street, in the Old Fort, for $1,120. MIR.
Beckett, also as agent for the same prin-
cipal, bought three other houses, almost
adjoining those first sold, for $1,250, and
two-story house on Reynolds street, in the
same neighborhood, for $3.50 The five
houses first sold are all small and intended
for the accommodation of negro tenants
The three-story brick house on the cor
ner of Zubly and Ann streets, was bought
In by Mr.. G. 3. Martin for $3.50. A small
house, with the lot, on Bismarck stree,
on which 1t stands, was sold by Auc-
tioneer John L. Archer to Mr.. Sam Plat
shek for $3.50. A lot at the corner of West
Broad and Eleventh streets, fronting 80
feet on Eleventh street, with rectangular
depth of III feet, was sold by Mr.. Dorsett
to Mr. ]. A. Donnelly for $780, A number of
other pieces of property had been adver-
tlsed and were to be sold by one or an
other of the various auctioneers, but for
reasons just as various they were with
drawn. The most potential of these latter
lay in the fact that Sheriff Sweeny had a
large number of tax sales to make that
consumed so much time that most of the
more enthusiastic buyers became tired
and went away.
OF this property sold under executions
for taxes, twenty -four pieces were bought
in by the county and the others by those
directly interested I'M the preservation of
the property of their immediate friends
The ordinary investor does not particu-
larly care to put his money into the uncer-
tain commodity known as tax titles and
the representatives of this genus on the
ground kept steadfastly aloof The con-
dition of the market otherwise, was good
and encouraging to those who had prop
erty to dispose of. Good sales were made