Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-01
GROWTH OF REALTY TRADE
Increase in Business Shown by Register Of
Deeds Report,
TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT GAIN FOR QUARTER
New Addition 60 he Plated In North
Part Of Town, the OLD Fair
Grounds Tract 60 Ne
Opened.

A large increase in real estate activity in
Douglas county this year is shown by the
quarterly report OF Register of Deeds Bandle
which has just been made up. In the total
number of instruments recorded the FIRST
three months of 1906 has the best of the
same period Of 1906 by 542, an increase of
practically % per cent, 2,170 instruments
having been recorded in January February
and March, 1905 and 1884 for those months
in 1906 Receipts OF the Office for the first
quarter OF 1906 were 81 5000. and expenses
S2Sis.59. leaving a surplus of $431Sl. Receipts
Of the Office for the first quarter of 1906
were S3.279.4O. and expenses 2.2SsS9 leaving
a surplus OF ssSs5l. This shows an increas
Of s55s2 In the surplus of the present year
over that Of the previous year.
The week was characterized by a decided
lull in real estate. After furry of two
or three weeks, II was natural quietness
should ensue for a few days say real estate
men who note that business always comes
in punches" This term lull can be APP
piled to the situation only so far big
transactions are concerned. For while big
deals have been few, nothing having been
reported involving a consideration of as
much as $4,000. yet business in smaller
marked Saturday that he never had so
many trades TO close, and most of them
were on properties ranging from 5000 to
$io00O. Requests for houses and lots were
mainly from those who wanted to buy for
homes.
An unusual number of inquiries is noted
from persons out in the state who wish
to come to Omaha to live, and several
sales have been made to such people in
the last few days There is consider
able number, also, of men in the smaller
towns who are buying Omaha real estate
as an investment Some of them come
from the western part of the state to look
at Omaha property.
Alfred c. Kennedy reports the following
recent sales: Double house on southeast
corner of Twenty-fourth and Dodge streets
| to Peter lessen, jr., for an investment
| $3.50; one and one-half lots in IMorsmar
park to Judge Howard Kennedy for a
residence, $50; a house and lot at 44Y
Harvey street to julius Thiele for a home
! 81 100; two vacant lots in Fearon Place tc
James w. Davis to build home, SLIGO; 3;
| feet on Cunning street. between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets, to d. A. Hart fol
an investment, 81, $50; vacant lot on north.
| west corner Forty-third and Dodge streets
to Mrs. Eliza withrow to build upon. $500
vacant lot on Thirty-frst and jackson
streets to Charles @. somers. 5000.
May 1, which is moving day in nearly
every city in the country is only 9
| month OF, but Omaha has never come t.
| give that day the character 1t has else
where. In Omaha the rental business &C
cording to local rental agents, is peculiar
unto itself. The. people rent whenevei
they can and usually try to get in with
or without leases. When they max,
leases they make them for a stipulated
period of one year or two years, with
out reference to them expiring at any
particular time as a consequence there Il
no general exodus. although, of course
the spring and, fall are the favored periods
for house hunting in Omaha. as in east
ern cities.