The San Francisco call., 1899-09-30
NO SCARCITY OF
INQUIRY IN THE
REALTY WORLD
Outlook Is Decidedly
Encouraging.

| LilCOOI dGIISs
n EAL estate brokers report but little
~ actual business during the past
n week, hut although Chs sales hay. have
| there has been no lack of inquiry,
and the general tone of the market
| is decidedly encoura ging. That the tenn
porary lull is not indicative of tendency
| toward the lethargy that characterized
| the summer months is evident to all VINO
are in the least familiar with existing
| conditions, and the brokers themselves
We're never more sanguine of prosperous
winter season than they are at the pres
ent moment This faith in the early en-
hancement of realty values in San Fran
cisco has been forcibly illustrated during
| the past few weeks by the numerous per-
| sonal investments of the men whose busi-
ness 1t is to buy and sell property for 9TH
| ers, pocketing their commissions and TAX
| ing no chances on the fluctuations OF the
market
| The only sale of any consequence during
the week was that of the residence prop
erty owned by James A. Donohoe Jr., on
Broadway, near Buchanan street. The
| lot has a frontage of about 1875 on the
north side of Broadway 1876 west of
Buchanan, with depth of 275 feet, ex-
| tending through to Vallejo street. The
purchaser was James L. Flood and the
price paid was $780, ,000 1t is understood
that Mr.. Flood contemplates the removal
of the present building and the erection of
$1,000 family residence on the site,
which commands a magnificent view of
the bay. The sale was made through
| Thomas Magee & Sons. Among other
sales reported are the following:
F,aSton El6ridpa e. Co have sold the
two-story cottage and lot, 50:6x127:S, on
the south line of Jackson street, for $500;
cottage and lot, 25x75, on Tehama street,
between First and Second, $4,000; residence
! (No. 1870 and lot, 21x112 feet, on Grove
street, near Baker, s2S00; lot N:6x120 feet,
and improvements, on the north line OF
Filbert street (No. 201S), near Buchanan,
! $500; lot and improvements on the south
! line of Geary street (No. 1873, between
Laguna and Buchanan, 34x137:6 feet, $4,000:
lot and improvements on the north line of
teenth, 5Ox95 feet, $1S75; four flats and .ot
! 25X75 feet, on the north line of Tehama
street (No. 164), east of Third street, s25OO.
The Hibernia Savings and Loan Society
on the north line of Geary street, 62 feet
east of Lyon street, lot 26xS0 feet. for
1890.
| A M Speck & Co. have sold the Bishop
Kip residence property, consisting of one
| fifty-vara lot and improvements on the
southeast corner of Eddy and Franklin
streets; SCHWARTZ Bros; pprcnase4f f ths s6a
remaining portion not being given. Inc
terms are private
Robert Hubbs has bought of John e.
! Cottle, executor, the property on the
south line of Golden Gate avenue, III;
feet west of Leavenworth street, lot ~
by 57:6, for $500.
Isaac H Morse has bought of the John
E Ruggles estate the residence and lot,
55x12O feet, on the southeast corner OF
Bush and Cough streets, for $1,000. The
sale was made by b. M. Gunn & 20. MI:
Morse bought the property for place OF
residence.
Easton, Eldridge e. Co. will hold an
auction sale of real estate on Iuesday,
some very Desirable property, including
Western Addition corner lot and residence
at Eddy and Broderick streets; western
| Addition flats, southwest corner Oh r ar
rell and Beideman streets; South-of-Mar-
ket investment at Nos. and 512 Harriet
! street. near Howard street; Western Ad-
! dition store and fiat at 1910 and l2l2 steiner
| street: Ashbury Heights residence ana lot
at 2o3 Central avenue, near Page street;
Mission fiat and store at TWenty-tnlrd
/ and Alabama streets; Park Panhandle lots
at Central avenue and Waller street;
Mission cottages and lots S04 and Sg6 Shot-
well street, near Twenty-second; Presldlo
Heights property at 1912 Clay street, near
First avenue. and Mission building lot on
! Twenty-first street, near Alabama.
Rudolph & Perkins of Oakland report
the following sales of property across the
20 "a ffrbomas Keath of berkeley for $1,000; lot
/ 25 block 8, of the Dowling tract TO Joseph
G, of the Golden tract to F. Dwyer OF san
| Francisco for $500; house and lot to d. H.
Mcdonald of San Francisco for $1,000
Loans made during the week endlng
] September rs by banks, loan associations
and private capitalists aggregate $275, ,150,
/ against $500 $50 for the previous week. The
loans of the savings banks amounted to
! $50 675: German, $50 500; San Francisco
Savings Union, $4,000; Humboldt s17OO:
Mutual SIG 25Q French SlVoT; Unien sed lEHse be
building associations loaned a. total or
! $40 $50 and private capitalists and others
loaned s11s165 AMONG M n5 the mlscelaaneous 1s
another of s15, 900 at 612 The loans by the
Hibernia and Mutual were at s per cent,
the former embracing one of 900. The
same bank executed two releases in favor
of Louise Breese for 100000 and $4,000 re-
spectively. Total releases for the week
were 1896, ,4So, against $l61,s4O for the pre-
The number of building contracts filed
for record during ,td thhe ~ week We o were ten ts
| liam Bonner for the erection of three
story frame building ang on Nde the
! cost S11 1923; Richard PAIL with 0. A.
Craemer, for a two-story frame structure
on the west line of Hyde street: Ills feet
|
| terprise Brewing Company with Otto
Shrader and Adam Beck for the erection
| of a boiler and engine house, on the east
! line of Folsom street, 200 feet south of
Seventeenth street, to cost s4797; N. Han
| sen with L. G. Bergren for the erection
of a two-story frame building. to contain
! 25 feet north of Henry street. to cost $3.50;
Mrs George H.; Wiegner with Marcuse &
Remmel to build a two-story house and
| stable on the south line of Point Lobos
| avenue, so feet north of Eighth avenue,
to cost $1,000. The others range in value
The Board of Panhandle Appraisers,
! consisting of J. r. Howell. O. B. Martin.
II. c. Robinson, A. ]. Raisch and S: H.
Kent has filed its report. The cost of ac-
| sion Of the panhandle and for the con-
struetion Of q boulevard n,s,g connecting Gold Si
mated at S4 249. $3.50 So OF this sum the ap-
praised value of the real estate is $2572.,,
| 665 75 and the improvements are valued
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