The San Francisco call., 1905-02-27
Many Suburban Residence
Sites Are Sold to People
From Other Localities
LARGE SALES ARE FEW
Business of Alameda COun-
ty Dealers Is Confined
to Many Small Transfers
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
1915 Broadway, Feb. 26.

estate circles. Dealers report many
sales Of small residence property. The
sales Of homes during the week aggre-
gate about s250,000. Few large sales
were made, the most important trans
actions in this city being the purchase
OF two-story building at Eighteenth
and Grove streets by John Clark from
DR.. W. D.. Huntington for $4,000; the
sale of the Stevens residence on Alice
street, near Durant, to d. S. Edwards,
for $500, and the purchase of large
factory site at Second and Webster
streets by Conrad Helmke, a we'll
known wholesale merchant of Oak
land.
William ]. Laymance of the Lay
nance Real Estate Company has
completed several transactions in the
last week, the largest being the sales
of large suburban ranch for S21 900
and several hundred feet in the Tenn
pleton tract, fronting on Eleventh and
Twelfth avenues and East Twenty
eighth street, for $4,000. The lat
ter sale was made for the Hiram
TubDs estate. Mr.. Laymance says
there is a brisk demand for fats and
for business properties ranging In
price from $4,000 to $4,000 He sold
last week four flats on East Ninth
street and Seventh avenue and two
flats at Eighteenth and West streets.
A GOOD SALE.
The Realty Bonds and Finance
Company sold the Stevens property
on Alice street and 100-foot lot on
Adams street to William G. Rchisin
for $4,000; a lot 70x100 feet on Sec
ond and Webster streets to Conrad
Helmke for $4,000, and a lot on Alice
street, near Fourteenth, to Hermann
Sagehorn for $500.
r. A. Jackson, manager for J. II.
Macdonald & Co., says the company
now has pending transaction In
volving a $4,000 business block,
which he expects to close before the
first part of March. He says there
is an increasing demand for business
property on Broadway and Washing
ton street, but that it is almost lmpos-
sible to buy except at exorbitant
prices.
Holcomb, Breed & Bancroft have
just opened up another of the popular
Santa Fe tracts. Since the opening OF
the first of these tracts, which are d1-
rectly on the lines of the Key Route
ferry system, this company has dis
posed of Sic lots in North Oakland,
nearly all of which have been sold TO
homeseekers, many of whom have al
ready built handsome houses on their
property.
n
ing volume of business and many In
quiries for residence property.
INSIDE SALES.
TAYLOR Bros. & Co. are handling
some fine inside properties, including
business locations and flats. and have
recently placed on the market several
choice villa sites on Vernon Heights.
George w. Austin reports a steady
increase in business, both in his selling
and renting departments.
The E. P. Vandercook Company re-
ports a bright outlook for the summer
market.
f. r. Crandan of Santa Clara Coun-
ty, who was recently appointed man
ager of the real estate department of
the Realty Syndicate, has taken charge
of the new Office of the company on the
second floor of the Syndicate building
on Broadway near Fourteenth street.
E. ]. Stewart, at 1908 Broadway. will
soon remove to new offices at S7S Broad
way, on the southeast corner of Eighth
street.
In order to better meet the demands
of an increasing business A. S. Day.
formerly with Holcomb. Breed &
Bancroft whose offices are in the Cen
trail Bank building, will move to new
quarters at 1882 Broadway on March 5.
| Williams & Parsons will move to
new offices at 91S Broadway on March l.
J. J. Mason of Berkeley will incor-
porate on March 1. His partners in
the new company will be Edison Adams
and Duncan McDuffie, formerly adver-
tising manager for Taft & Pennoyer.
The present offices will be refitted and
enlarged to accommodate the needs of
the new company.
BERKELEY LIVELY.
Aibee & Coryell of Berkeley report
H..
| ing the last week.
Warren Cheney & Co. have re-
Gently secured contracts for the sale
| of a number of factory and warehouse
sites on the West Berkeley water
| front They have sold several lots
| in Peralta Park during the last week.
| W. c. Moran is handling a number
of fine residence properties.
Juster & Baird have experienced a
marked increase in business during the
| last week. They now have on hand
| several excellent business sites CEN
| trally located.
The Syndicate Investment Company
| of Fruitval, through it's president. Val
entine G.. Hush, reports marked in
crease in the demand for Fruitvale
property.
Judson & Co. of Fruitvale have Just
| finished the division of the Judson
! tract, in which they have sold several
lots in the last week.
H. A. Pleitner has opened up two
| tracts of fine suburban property.
| Henry Barkmeyer has had many in
| quiries in the last week for small i'm
proved properties and houses for rent
mostly from people in San Francisco
| Jeffress & Co. of Twenty-third ave-
| nue. are grading the Wakefield tract
preparatory to placing 1t on the market
| The A. L. Dougherty Land Company
y,~, lxrc 3x,r ,%<1
cisco, with a capital stock of 500 900
The purpose Of the company is to oper
/; up several large tracts of land in
Dougherty, Alameda County. A. L.
Dougherty, one of the directors. has
| just decided to the company 2446 acres
| of land located in Murray township.
PASSES CONFEDERATE BILL-Miss @.
Moreing. 2075 Mission street. reported to the
police yesterday that man went into he,