Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Market Very Dull During the
Current Week.
NO BIG DEALS RECORDED
Bad Weather Contributing Cause of
the Laxity.
REVIVAL EXPECTED NEXT WEEK
Many Inquiries Being Received From
Out-of-Town Sources for Rent
able Property.
NO BIG DEALS RECORDED
REVIVAL EXPECTED NEXT WEEK

No deal in real estate of any great
Importance was recorded the cuff
rent week, and this cannot be. said
of any like period, perhaps, the past
season. 1nnumerable applications
for houses to rent and to buy from
out-of-town sources was one of the
characteristics of the market which
interested the brokers. There are
signs on the horizon that the ap-
preaching week will witness very
general revival of interest all along
the line.
There are indications that the brief dull
ness in the local realty market is at an end
and that the next fe wdays will witness a
revival of interest in the sales marts all
along the line. The small army of buyers.
owners. brokers and dealers generally. who
have been out of town for the past month or
more. are struggling back, and that the mar
ket will beginto look up shortly seems to be
a foregone conclusion. Everything points
to a strong fall business. The extensive ad
vertising that the capital has had recently,
II Is confidently asserted by the real estate
men, will attract a great deal of outside In
vestment In fact. there are already signs
that there will be number of strangers in
the market before the fall months shall
have rolled around.
On every hand the dealers are making
preparations for this trade. The crack
statesmen are back at their desks. and we'll
brushed up for the big business that Is
being so strongly anticipated.
Meanwhile there is no little activity in
the building line which seems to be but
In very small measure affected by the
strike. Work is in active progress il va
rious parts of the city. Careful inquiry re-
Gently did not reveal a single building On
which work had been entirely stopped. in
some instances progress had been materially
interfered with, but in most cases the
builders and contractors had been enabled
TO go ahead with one class of work or the
other. In the residential parts of the city
the continued inclement weather probably
had as much to do with the partial cessa-
tion some of the dealers declare as the
strike itself, and it is not thought that there
will be any further extended delay In build
Ing operations. In many sections OF the city
the building activity is conspicuousy no.
Gceable.
Big Building Planned.
Some of the principal thoroughfares. espe-
cially 10th street. are pretty well torn up,
but with little good weather rapid prog
ress will be made. Even with matters as they
now stand a remarkable year In the build
ing trades will have been recorded after
next January, it Is said, and there are
plans under way which, If they go through,
will add greatly to the record. One promi-
nent real estate dealer is promoting project
for new office building. which he says will
eclipse anything of the kind that has yet
been built in this city The success of the
\ q in art G
obtaining two small parcels of realty to
complete the ground area required. The
building In question, IT Is said, will be
erected along the lines of the most modern
steel construction. the same class of mate
rails being used that was employed in the
famous Flatiron building in New York. OF