The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
Weather Conditions Not Favor
able to Real Estate Men, But
Business Goes On. 8
SOME. OF THE WEEKS D0lNGsS
Much Property Has Changed,
Hands-Would-Be Home ~
Builders Disappointed

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times have a tendency to curtail tho .@
business Of real estate men. OF course S
there are exceptions to tho rule. for SsI
conditions come sometimes in new ana @
nndeveloped territory that make flush
times the very best for the real a.. stts
tate agent and enable him to do "a hi
land office business" But in an old
settled community, like Richmond, this lSg
lfact Is that the better the times and
the easier the money -,nnrket the less fs
business there is for the real estato s
man. This Is the way member sc MI
one OF the leading real estate firms OF
tnis city reasoned with Tho Time
Dispatch man yesterday. Nj
Going into details no added: II AVE N
on my sales-lst not less than a 1un ~
dred pieces of Richmond property .s ana Ia
the owner Of each piece has his figure SsS
on lt. Not man in the bunch Is hard
up Tor money. or II he Is he can Eo ID
to the banks and get It. IA #
fence ne Is not In any great hurry II;
20 sell, because he isn't bound to, and
the natural result Is he has his prop
erty marked up to tho very highest
price. in many Instances much hi gll- II!
er price than can get for it, Let q 81
little financial squeeze come: let money
get scarce and hard to get, and the
man with real estate to sell will, make il
more accommodating figures He Will #
I
his agent to get bid Prosperous
times and easy money do not always
help the real estate agent"
l This may or may not explain eth s s
dulncss in the real estate market
(which some OF the men who have lists
OF property for sale and for rent have
teen complaining OF for the past wee lS,Sss
Not Altogether Dull. So
However, things are not dead, nor
Ialtogether DULL. Some OF the age1l-
lcies report very good business, not
understanding tile unfnvorable weather
| OF the past week. 1t may be remarked
IN this that the worst cness3
my the real estate men have to con-
Il Stend with at this season of the year
lIsfs the sweat1 ler "a Ss
y Sunshine. dry streets and good roads,
4 stogetheri "get-up-and hustle, Iress
\ the elements that are conduclve to the
II success Of the real estate man. the
a hustle Is never aclling among the Rich-k.
I raond dealers, but the weather condl- a
4 tions for n week past have not been
q altogether favorable. ss. sss ss
4 And yet something has been doing
7 NIessrs. N. w. Bowe s Son report
y number OF good sales on the small
order. Their books OF sales, as we'll as otss
= inquiry, show that the demand for small
homes is still very active, and ownera35
/. OF such property n who have not gotten
their ideas up to the Broad way valuatlon
"A notch have no. difficulty In selling hlaS
, the sales OF this firm for the past week
were not on the big order. they aggra-
I gated sum that was a way up In the
/: thousands; tts .sS asss
Good Sales Made.
Messrs. j. Thorn ps on Brown & Company
y report fairly active business and hint
:. | about big transactions yet In embryo
: that they are not at liberty to sneak
about. Among sales chat they do feel
at liberty to speak about may be 51llen-s
; toned that at the corner Of the Her1ni-s
tage Road and the Richmond, Fred
ercksburg and Potomac Railway tracks,
This sale was made to A ]. T. SmithssAg
IS Co.. wholesale and retail wood and coal
! dealers. who have for the past twenty
near Elba, Tho expanding business -
I this firm required larger space a. and
special railroad facilities, and hencas
!. their move to the West End. "a
. branch5railroad will run Into their new
I yard thus giving them better facilitiess
. than heretofore. Captain Robert M
|, Northen has been associated with this
t firm for many years. and says work
Q has already commenced on their new
yards.
NIessrs Brown & Co. also report the
sale of several stores near the OLD
* Market, a Moore-Street dwellin g, HIN IN
twenty-acre farm near Dumbarton and
, new West End annex where they pres
diet value will have n greater rise this
year in proportion to present prices
than in any other section,
Another deal OF the past week was
made by S. Fl. Halves s. Co.. who bought
the triangular lot OF about one and saj
half acres between the HermItag Sc Road
and the old Fair Grounds, on the Ri,
r. & p. line. They purpose making
4! this big coal-ynrd for the accos5
mediation Of their West End trade.
Messrs Pollard & Bagb report active
business for}the past week or ten days
Among tho many sales they have made,
the following may BIO mentioned n Ten
lots on Grace Street In the Lee Dis
trlct. aggregating s22.2a5; Graca.:
Street dwelling for $1,000. IA Meadow.
Street home for $4,000, n Marshsll.
Street dwelling for s2.575, a Twenty,
sixth-Street home for s2,oGs, a factory
for Sl1,500, and three farms Aggregate
ing 100000. sg
Among other sales OF the week.
1 Messrs NtcYeiEh y Cil,,n sold sorE W,
D. Browning q twenty-nlne-footfs lot
west of and adjoining the Synagogue,
ION West Franklin Street, to DR. Bev.
terley r. Tucker. Itls understood that
Or. Tucker will build a handsome resis
h dence on lac property. HI
o The same firm has also sold for
10 Mrs Mary II. Nelson, to j, A. I'urdte.
t an eight-arre piece OF property an
t south side Of Williamsburg Road, for
$4,000.
: Jefferson Getting Ready. 81
a Three OF the new floors OF the Jak.
4, ferson Hotel viii BIO thrown openqtn
Is tthe public next week, and tho entira
az Main Street portion OF the structura
Twill soon he as luSuriant and heautt.
s. fulMsif not moro so, than when thu
s, structure WAS burned, March 90, 1e1l,
Is Just whether the anniversary! OF ! fta
J, burning OF the Main Street pertian
$. of the hotel will mark the OPENING III
8. Continued on Third Pass3 "a