Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-04
TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
Business fer the Year Runs Ahead Of Last
Years Record,
INTEREST IN ALL SORTS OF PROPERTY
Dealers FIND Matters quite Lively
aud Look FOR Busy Win
ter IN the Line OF
Trades.
INTEREST in ALL SORTS or PROPERTY

IN looking over the record OF real estate
transfers for this year and last. the fact
becomes prominent that they are running
considerably heavier this year They ex-
coed 1906 by about $4,000 or $4,000 a
month, with the exception Of May when
they were heavier than the same month a
year ago by over 100000. The aggregate
Of october transfers was Ss25, es5, as COM
pared with 1888 a year ago and $51L 4ls
two years ago. II is now safe to say that
the year will be rounded out with the
largest total for long while.
Building permits amounted to $500, $50. or
about $4,000 more than the previous month.
In October OF 1905 the figures were LOO
and in 1904 they were s12S,93o. One hundred
permits we're issued last month, the ma
jority Of them being for the construction
OF homes ranging In cost from 1880 to
5000
s. +. BostWick brought a copy Of the
Daily Real Estate Gazette, dated May "a
1887, to the Real Estate exchange meeting
last Wednesday. It Is a breezy sheet Of
four pages, giving all the real estate news
OF the day. Business was evidently lively
in those days, for the transactions for May
q were given at $126,1n, and dozens and
dozens Of realty agents advertised long
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them taking each a whole column. One
advertisement said George Hicks and
seaver and Whltcomb would furnish car
riages on a certain day to take prospec-
tive purchasers to Westawn, where lots
were being sold at the phenomenally low
price OF $500 and $500 Lots in Loves adj
dition, which have been selling recently at
500 to $500. were advertised at $1,000 The
bank clearings at Omaha for May % were
mentioned as $55s,125.
The Real Estate exchange is to select a
new set OF officers two weeks from next
Wednesday. The following men have
been placed in nomination: President S.
p. Bostwick; vice president, w. L. Selby,
Byron Hastings, Charles Saunders and
@. NJ. Nattinger; treasurer, George Nor
ton, J. w. Robbins and w. II. Gates; sec
rotary. Harry A, Turkey; executive com
mittee OF three, Byron Hastings. Charles
Saunders, s. s. Curtis, George Wallace and
T.. A. Benson. other nominations may
be made at the next meeting
That all the bricklayers in Omaha are
at work and the contractors need twenty
five to forty more shows that building
activity in the city is holding up. Some
Of the contractors on the larger jobs ex T.
pected to get men when the Byrne &
Hammer and the Parlin, Orendorff.g &
Martin warehouses were finished, but
these men were no sooner through their
work on these structures than they were
taken to smaller buildings scattered over
the city-stores and iats-which the
owners wish TO complete before freezing
weather. The Rome hotel. the Carpenter
Paper companys building, the NJ T..
Smith & Co. building and the United
States Supply company's warehouses are
the largest structures now under way.
Work is TO be begun soon on the Chris
tian church, which is to be of brick.
Those interested in knowing what was
paid for property in the site announced
for the Union Pacific headquarters ac-
auired some information If they noted
the real estate transfers recorded last
week. The records say that the Ish
property, which is the west forty-four
feet OF lot s, brought $4,000 and the
cast twenty-five feet of the same lot,
known as the Willis block, brought s11,-
600.
Friday deed was recorded transferring
the Evans home at Thirty-third and Far
nam streets from Lizzie p Evans to Flor
ence w. Hall. The consideration named
was $4,000,
r. Callahan will build a row OF brick
houses at the northwest corner of Twenty
fourth street and Capitol avenue. He re-
Gently paid $1,000 for the site and the
Eeven-room house on it, which will have to
be removed.
Franklin Banker Of Boston was in Omaha
a few days ago looking after his real es-
tate interests. He said Omaha had come
TO look very metropolitan since he visited
the city a number OF years ago. Omaha
enjoys a steady growth which warrants
investment" he said.
President Green OF the Real Estate ex-
change threatens to have Fred ID. Wead
w. c. IRE and w. 4. Graham excluded
from membership next Wednesday, and
consequently there promises 10 be a large
attendance OF the boys who want to see
the fun. There have been some lively