The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-19
HUNDREDS SEEK
OAKLAND HOMES
Real Estate Dealers Find
Difficulty in Supplying
Wants of the Newcomers
DEMAND FOR COTTAGES
Alameda Firms Unable to
Provide Accommodations
for Prospective Tenants
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
! 1915 Broadway, Sept 1S-
Although 1900 new dwellings have
! been erected in this city during the
! last twelve months. local real estate
dealers say they have lately expe-
! rienced great difficulty in providing
houses and flats for newcomers who
! desire to buy or rent homes in Oak
land. In some localities it is almost
/ impossible either to buy or rent, the
: houses recently erected having been
/ taken even before completed. This Is
true both of cottages or houses built
to be sold, and dwellings and flats
I erected for the purpose OF renting.
This demand for homes has not been
the result of old residents of Oak
/, land moving from one part of the city
1 to another, for even when the de-
mand was heaviest there have been
but few houses advertised for sale
or for rent. The increased demand
is the result of a steady influx of new
residents coming from the East and
/ from other cities in California. "A
considerable number Of these new
/ corners are San Franciscans who have
been attracted to this side of the bay
by superior climatic conditions and
other natural advantages.
TALKS OF RECENT GROWTH.
Frank j. Woodward. president of
the Oakland Real Estate Dealers AS
ISOLATION, said to-day:
We have at present more prospective pur-
| chasers for properties in this city than we can
nd -F
from out OF town points IN the recent real
| estate auctions held in Oakland more than one
third Of the purchasers have been from san
| Francisco and other cities in California and
More than half the offices in the new Union
! Savings Bank building have already been re-
| served and some OF these have been rented to
! professional men from points as lar distant
as the state OF Maine All these facts lndl-
/ cate that many of the people now seeking
homes and business locations in Oakland have
been attracted TO this city by its natural ad-
I vantages.
The Oakland Water Front Company
has begun the work of retaining
ten-acre tract Of tide land just east
of Adams wharf and south of First
street. The property has a frontage
of 1900 feet on the north side of the
estuary. along which a bulkhead viii
be constructed at a cost OF $4,000.
As soon as the buIkhead and fill are
| completed the property viii be leased
to large lumber company for yards
and docks.
contract has just been let by W.
Morgan to a. Scott for the erection
of a modern apartment-hOuse at the
corner of Nineteenth and Franklin
streets, the cost TO be $4,000.
The new Emeryville hotel, which is
being erected on Park avenue. near
San Pablo, by S. Lehman of Point
Richmond, is nearly completed The
outside work has been finished and the
plasterers are now engaged on the
interior. The structure contains forty
rooms. Four large stores occupy the
ground floor.
DEMAND IN ALAMEDA.
ALAMEDA, Sept. 1S.-There is a
lull in the local real estate market
which is attributed by some Of the
dealers to the quietness that usually
exists during a national political cam
paign. Building is not so lively as it
has been, but the demand for modern
cottages continues in excess of the
supply. Here is what some of the
firms have been doing and the way
they view the situation:
Charles Adams & Cove have
made three sales within the last few
weeks. We disposed of a cottage on
Pacific avenue TO a Mr.. King and an
other on Fifth street to a Mr.. Gimbel.
We also negotiated the transfer of
| large lot on Encinal avenue, near Oak
street. on which we plan to erect three
cottages next month. The houses will
each have five rooms and be fitted up
in modern style. We are also COM
pleting a colonial cottage on Bay
street. near Railroad avenue. Rent
ing has been good with us and we
could rent many cottages if we had
them at our disposal.
Hally & Co. will this week move into
their elegant new Office at 1915 Santa
Clara avenue. This firm is branching
out and hereafter Leo Robbins will be
associated with it as salesman. The
firm recently completed a cottage on
Briggs avenue for Samuel Grummett
William Dufour & Co. negotiated
the transfer of a cottage and lot on
Clinton avenue, near Park street, be-
longing to the John Young estate This
firm has just completed a six-room
cottage at Encinal avenue and Willow
street for Mrs. Sara Roundy
Frank n. Dodd of the Alameda
OOHlpdIy-OIe nOIlCedDle Ied-
ture of the realty business at present
is the number of old houses that are
being remodeled and improved in up
to-date style. When a substantial old
residence is thus improved it is easier
to rent it. There are many inquiries
for unimproved property and we ex-
pect soon to erect several large resi-
dences If deals we have on hand are
put through:
William Hamond Jr. of Hammond
& Hammond-While transfers and
building are quieter now than for
some time. our firm is kept busy an
swering inquiries for improved and
Cnimproved property in Alameda.
This inquiry in itself is a good indi-
cation OF future prosperity and is due
in a measure to the extensive adver-
Using that the natural advantages of
the Island City have been receiving of