The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-13
BUSY REAL ESTAT
AGENTS HARD AT II.
Owners Of Realty Have Their
ValuationHIdeas onsiderably
En1argedbof Late.

When the real estate agents OF ttlcn-
imond make sales during day involving
less than fifty ora hundred thousand
dollars they consider It a very dull day.
According to this manner OF estimating,
yesterday was not "a particularly active
day within the. city limits. However, II III
sales Of suburban property were added
and the healthy deals, both in and out
of town, that were3 put on the 81. string ing
may be counted, yesterday can be set
down as "a pretty active day in real
estate. js5% st5 X. 4.
81 II could tell You of flye. big transactions,
! that II consfder3a as goods ds made, but I
have cast-iron rule not to pgtve out q
sale until the money has changed hands
and the deeds are ready, to go to record,
remarked the seliorS member of Main
Street real estate firm yesterday. He
added that there Is no break In the In
quiry for, good building lots on the part
of home. makers and SPECTATORS.
Sellers Holding Stiff.
1t takes @longersto make real estate
deal than it 1d did as few months back.
Owners of property who really want to
sell have gotten their ideas Of the value.
of Richmond realtyienlarged conslderaply y.
and they naturally hold for. pretty stiff
prices-prces that the seeker for home
site has to take some time to think about.
andS the real estate; agent, whose bust
ness It Is to bring the two together some
times has to do a, great amount of
hustlng to get them on closlng-up terms.
That is one of the features of rising
market, and the one that Is making the
agent earn every cent Of his commissions
In these days.
Mr.. Luther Libby has purchased q beau
ttful and roonly lot on Grace Street, near
Allen Avenue, upon which he proposes
to erect as soon as possible a handsome
residence.
The deed for Mr. B. B. Valentines
ninety-foot eighteen thousand dollar lot
on Monument Avenue has passed to
record, and in a short while his colonial
mansion will be making its way from tho
foundation skyward. l III
In few days the work Of tearing
down the small stores Nos. 504, COG and sos
East Broad Street, will be commenced,
and when completed workmen will get
busy erecting there for the C. E. Whitlock
ESTATE a four or five story brick store,
TO be occupied as soon ms completed by
"a Broad Street merchant 1t has not
yet been fully decided to what uses tho
upper stories will be put They may DO
lodge rooms or they may be lodging rooms
and offices.
Plans for Hotel Annex.
Colonel Murphy hns finally accepted the
plans for the Eighth Street "nnnex" to
his Murphy's Hotel Annex, and within n
week will award the contract for Its erec-
tioh!s t,rliis annex will front on Grace
Street and run Jos feet toward tho present
annex being connected with the Same
by bridge. 1t will add one hundred
rooms to Murphys. besides offices on tho
Grace Street side and heating rooms in
the basement. The whole will so six
stories up In tho air, and will cost when
completed, In the nelghborhood Of 100000,
Messrs. Pollard and Baghy arc now
comfortably fixed In their new and splen-
didly arranged real estate offices. No. 1902
East Mainbstreet,
iNressrsi Harrison and lGranthave moved
into tho offices on. Eleventh Street for
nlerly occupied by Pollard and I3agby,
Mr. Charles a. Rose. real estate agent,
formerly at No. 500 East Main has moved
to No. North Ninth Street, where he
Is most comfortably and conveniently
fixed UP for business.
Mr. w. Duncan Lee, who has been as
slstant in tho Office .of CAPTAIN M. ],
Dlmmock, architect, for two years or
more, has been admitted to partnership
in tho business. Mr. Lee has drawn the
plans for number Of the handsome
modern residences now In Richmond. and
In course of construction, and his reputa-
ton as an architect Is already established,
w. b. T.