The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-08
MORE B|G SALES
 ARE RECORDED Real Estate Activity Continue 5
 UnabaiGd ONE CORNER BRINGS $51,5OO Business Men Unanimous In Saying the Present Condition Is Healthy and Substantial Growth
 and Not Boom.
ONE CORNER BRINGS S5I,5OO

The activity of the Birmingham real estate market which mas prevailed for the past few weeks shows no evidence of abating. A great deal of property con. tinues to change hands every day, and yet every real estate man in tie city maintains that there is no boom" but that investors are just coming to realize the value of property in Birmingham.
 The largest deal consummated yester- day was the purchase by the Meyer-Mafx company of the southwest corner of First avenue and Eighteenth street 1OOxls21a feet, for $51,5OO, through Brown Bros. & Co. The property faces on First avenue and extends through to the railroad It was bought in the interest of the An heuser- Busch Brewing company and large four story building will be erected on it In the near future. It will be used as beer depot, will have a cold storage plant and there will aiso he stabling ia cilties.
 Another large sale yesterday was by the Alabama Brewing company through the real estate agency of W. H. Williams. It was the northeast corner of Avenue B and Twenty-frst street, 10Oxl4O feet. and the consideration was $1S,5OO. It was purchased by A. M. Robertson. The prop erty contains three-story building used for stores and tenement dwellings.
 There were several other smaller trans actions and there is every evidence that the activity will become even greater within the next few weeks than it has been recently
 Little Central Property Offering.
 We'll informed real estate men now say that there is comparatively little property in the business portion of the city for sale. Owners are inclined to think that when others want their prop erty so badly it is good policy to hold on to 1t themselves. The prices being offered are so tempting however, that there Is sure to be a great deal more of 1t that will change hands.
 The activity Is not confined to business property. but extends to the residence portions of the city. There Is a great deal of building in progress and con- tractors expect to be rushed still more during the simmer and fall. In addition to numerous dwellings in course of erec- | ton there are many substantial business houses going up.
 The Big Buildings.
 The Title Guarantee companys steel frame building on Third avenue is rapid ly nearing completion. all the brick and stone work having been nnished. Work men are now busy on the interior, while the steel structural work of the First National bank building is under way. The handsome new stable of the Birmingham Livery company is in course of construc- ton.
 The Moore & Handley Hardware com pany contemplate a ffve-story building at the corner of Avenue A and Twentieth street The founndatlon of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows is being laid. and work on the new $30,000 Eleventh Avenue Methodist Episcopal church will begin shortly. Numerous two and three-story stores are going up at different points within a radius of six blocks each way 1 from the corner of Second avenue and Twentieth street.
 Substantial business men are unani- nous in their assertions that the present activity is a permanent growth, and is not at all the result of the overhaste that usually attends boom activity.