The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-14
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS
Much Property is Changing
Hands Every Day in the
Week Nowadays.
BUILDERS ARE ALSO BUSY
Richmond Lots in Active Demand
and Houses Are Going Up
Over Them.
BUILDERS ARE ALSO BUSY

There was probably never time In
Richmond's history when real estate
men were more actively at work and i.
is quite sure that never IN the city's life
were as many builders ard contractors
enjoying flush business as right now.
There are no idle workmen in Richmond
to-day.
AS previously stated IN these columns,
the good year 1906 IS liable TO be a re-
cord in real estate. and those
fortunate nlortals who are blest with
saving bank accounts at three per cent.
are getting move on" looking for bet
ter paying investments. Rumors of big
deals and little deals, manufacturing
deals and other deals were flying thick
md fast last week, and real estate agents
seem too busy even to listen to an IN
uuis!tiva reporter. In some things
touched upon they are mum as oysters
and secretive as claims, but the hustle
and hustle prevailing in many OF the
Offices shows that something is doing"
and every day brings to light these va
rious deales as settlements are made
and deeds recorded.
Messrs ]. Thompson Brown & Com
pauy report unusual activity for the first
of the year, and upon request for list OF
their sales for the past week, among
others made by them. feel at liberty to
mention the following:
Lot, Monument Avenue, to III. d. Eich-
elberger for So 500; house and lot. Grove
Avenue, to Mrs. Alex. West for s3,soo;
$50 foot corner Franklin Street and
Monument Avenue for sl1250; pur-
chasers name withheld; so feet, Park
Avenue. to city of Richmond for $1,000.
TO extend Strawberry Street; house and
lot. Barton Heights, for $500.
The same firm. In conjunction with
Bowe & Son. closed deal conveying five
acres on Hermitage Road to the Rich
moul Foundry and Machine Company,
for $4,000 This property is near tho
Southern Stove Works abattoir, brewery
and other manufactures near by, and
doubtless means the establishment of
another big plan at this favorite point.
Good Sales Made.
Mr.. +. A. Catlin, real estate dealer,
also reports active business. He has re-
Gently closed the sale of lots Nos 1911 and
1873 East Franklin Streets, adjoining the
old Masonic Lodge The buildings on the
lots will be torn down as soon as pos
sible and a. mercantile house built on the
site The property belonged to the old
H. satterneld, for $3.50. Mr.. Satterfield
was also the purchaser OF the thre-story
brick building on the same block. which
was sold some time ago for $500, and
which is now being demolished.
Mr.. Catlin has also closed the sale
of the vacant lot fronting forty feet on
the south side of Main Street east OF
I.cmbardy, and running back 179 feet. j.
j.. Langley was the purchaser and paid
$40 for the property. He will in a
short time build factory for the manu-
factory of mattresses on the site.
Another lot sold by Mr.. Catlln is a
vacant lot in West Franklin Street.
fronting 40 feet. The price paid for the
property WAS $50 foot. 1t is thought
that tie purchaser r'wil soon build a
dwelling on the lot.
John t. Goddn & Co, sold during last
week the lot at the southwest corner of
Pine and Cumberland Streets, 1D by 146
feet. with large frame dwelling thereon.
FOR $3.50. Also farm on Central Turn
pike. five miles from the city, Tor $1,000.
Builders Opportunity.
II is now settled fact that the Rich
nlond and chesapeake Bay Railway
Company will have its depot in the eight
hundred block on West Broad Street.
and as a result one Of the largest sales
of houses ever attempted in this city
Will begin tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock. Beginning at 10. Sli West
Broad and going IN northerly drec-
zion about thirty houses Will be sold to
The highest bidder.
Messrs, j. D. carneal and Son. as an
nounced IN another column, will have
charge Of the sale, and they will an
nounce at each house as the sale pro-
ceeds how much time viii be given to the
purchasers in which 10 remove the build
'nss Some of the houses are nearly new,
and can be removed az whole or taken
10 pieces and removed 10 other locations
AS all building materials are no high, the
sale offers splendid opportunities to con-
tractors and other builders
The houses TO be sold, in addition to
the broad Street house. are Nos 500 $40
81 and sl2 West Marshall; No. sos Syear
Clay; Nos. 800 802. s6i, sos. 800 and All
Catherine Street; Nos. s14 and SIG Short
Catherine Street; Nos. S19is and sll West
Leigh Street Nos. S14, sl5. 8is and st1
Williams Street. Nos, a7. 49, s21, s23 and
"a Moore Street; two unfinished brick
dwellings in the south side OF wee, CLAW
Street in the 800 block.
Property Transfers.
Richmond r. %. Schaaf and wifa IN
Charles +. Willis, Is feet on west side OF
St Peter Street 100 feet north of leigh
Street, si,0oo
Henrico-B. rand. wayord. specln,
commissioner TO William M. Habiiston
T. William Pemherton. Everett Wade,
and John T. Jones. 7o7 acres on Jame,
River, partly In Henrico county and partl,
IN Goochiand county. known as Lowe,
Tuckahoe," 5000
John 3. swartwout to w. r.. Todd To-
No, In square 3, lot No, in square 70
LOT no. IA In square % and LOT No. ii
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