The San Francisco call., 1906-11-12
Continued Activity in the Real
Estate Market of Oakland.
Dealers Report Large Sales of City Property
and No Lull in Building Operations.

OAKLAND, Nov. 11.-Notwithstand-
ing that last week marked the close of
the gubernatorial campaign, as well as
the county campaign, which gave men
In all walks of life plenty to think of
besides the buying and selling of real
estate, conditions in the Oakland real
estate market have not been appre-
cfably affected, real estate men gener-
ally having all the business they could
attend to. Sales of Oakland business
and residence property have been nu-
particularly large transfers recorded,
the volume of business has been equal
to that of any previous week
One of the largest deals closed last
week was the transfer of a lot and
building on the southeast corner of San
Pablo avenue and Seventeenth street,
from Margaret Hart to William c. Bar
rett The sale was made by Albert S.
Day and the price paid for the property
was $4,000. 1t is the intention of the
purchaser to erect a large, modern busi-
ness building on the property as soon
as the leases of the tenants of the
present structure expire.
Another important deal was the pur-
chase of a lot on Jefferson street, near
Fourteenth. by A ]. Snyder, a well
known real estate dealer of this city,
from Frank j. McHenry, the price paid
for the property being $4,000 Inci-
dentally Snyder reports an active week,
with all the business he could handle
and many inquiries for Oakland prop
erty from outsiders.
Hugh M. Cameron reports the sale of
a lot 69x105 feet, and two houses, on
the northwest corner of San Pablo ave-
nue. and Twenty first street, for Lucy
A. Porter to Ben o. Johnson, the price
paid by the purchaser being $4,000
Mr.. Cameron also reports a number of
other sales, mostly of residence prop
erty.
FOR PIEDMONT DIsTRICT.
Designs have just been completed for
the new Piedmont district building of
the Pacific States Telephone Company
and the work of erecting the new ex-
change will be commenced as soon as
the contract can be let for the work
AS soon as the new building is COM
pleted the entire service in Piedmont
will be handled from the new exchange,
and the prefix Piedmont" will take the
place of Oakland" on all the numbers
In that district
The new building will be 50xS6 feet.
two stories in height, and will be of
class construction, thoroughly fire.
proof throughout, there being absolute
ly no wood used in it's construction,
even the window sashes and door cas-
lHSS DciH5 Vi Ilcldl Lie w lllQOWS Will
be glazed with wire glass and will be
protected by automatic hreproof shut
ters. The estimated cost of the struc-
ture is $4,000.
One hundred and fifty men are now
engaged in the work of construction Of
the new Claremont Hotel under the d.
rection of George Mcneil of New York,
who Is superintendent of construction
of the new building. The framework
- -. AL - H.,
second story, and the work of INSTALL
ing the heating and lighting plants.
which will be done under the direction
of Robert Tyre of Los Angeles, will
soon be under way.
NO LULL IN BUILDING.
AS regards building operations in
Oakland, the records of the Building
Inspectors office show that there has
been but little lull in this feature of
the Improvement of the city. During
the last week permits for the erection
of more than 100 new buildings and
alterations of old structures have been
issued by the Building Inspector, the
total value of the work for which per-
mits were issued being $172,264
Building operations also continue
active in Berkeley and Alameda. thirty
building permits having been issued in
the college town in the last week, and
nearly as many new buildings have
been commenced in Alameda The
same conditions exist in Emeryville,
Fruitvale and other suburban districts,
In all of which the sound of the saw
and hammer may be heard on all sides
Preparations are being made by the
West Coast Realty Company to open a
large tract of residence property at
Fftchburg. The new tract is within
five minutes walk of the East Four
teenth-street car line, and is situated
in one of the best residence districts in
Alameda County.
George w. Austin has opened hand
somely appointed offices at 101S Broad
way. Austin says that he is satisfied
that he did not leave his luck In the
old office, for within two hours of the
time he took possession of the new
quarters he had closed deal in real
estate involving 100000.
BIG DEALS IN OAKLAND.
active winter in real estate circles,
Austin said today:
Manufacturers all over the country
seem TO have suddenly realized the
fact that Oakland is the only city any
where near San Francisco Bay where
had many orders to secure informa-
tion regarding the facilities of the
l.
found the data prepared by the Cham
Der of Commerce to be Of tremendous
value. Secretary Stearns has been
sending these facts all over the world
for the past three years, but some
how or other San Francisco was be-
lfeved to be the better locality of the
two for manufacturing and warehouse
sites. Now we are reaping the benefit
of all this literature, for inquiries
come from all over the country.
The demand for inside city property
is as great as ever. and all transac-
tions point to the fact that In spite
of all the building now going on there
are yet insufficient facilities for prop
er1y caring for the new conditions of
Oakland. A recent sale made in my
Office Is fifty feet on Eighth street,
near Clay, sold by ]. Simon to Morris
Isaacs and L. Schwartz two local
merchants, at a price in the neigh
borhood of $4,000.
In one day last week we closed three
downtown propositions averaging $780,
600 apiece In the neighborhood of
Eighth and Clay streets i've sales have
been made by US this week. We have
sold two houses on Grove street. be-
tween Nineteenth and Twentieth, for
Owen Dobson, who got a price that
would have seemed fabulous a year
ago; but as this locality is rapidly de-
veloping into business property the
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