Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-10
REAL ESTATE ON The MOVE
Deals Of Day Indicate Healthy Activity
in Omaha Property.
OUTSIDE LOTS ARE MOSTLY REPORTED
Besidence and Business Property
Change Hands at Good Figures,
Most Purchases Being
for Investment,

George G. Wallace has sold a lot seventy
feet square at the northeast corner Of
Twenty-hfth avenue and Grant street on
which are several small stores and cottages,
for 5000 to A. Frank. who intends to re-
model two of the stores into modern
grocery establishment Mr. Wallace has
also sold two let's in Monmouth park near
Thirty sixth and Larmore streets to Belle
Durham and Arthur Miller for 800 each.
largo frame house is being erected on
each Of the lots and were sold before com
pleted. which is an Indication Of the great
amount Of home buying, which is being
witnessed this year in Omaha. Olof Ander-
SON q foreman OF the street car company,
bought a lot at the southeast corner Of
Twenty-seventh and Lake streets from Mr..
Wallace for $500 and will move his house
on the lot which was built on the property
Of the street car company across the street.
Some Residence sales.
Three lots at the southwest corner Of
/ Twenty sixth street and Poppleton avenue
have been bought for S., 800 by Frank r Nier-
ling Of the Paxton & Vierling Iron Works
company from Edmund j. Shakeshaft. The
lots are III feet deep with a frontage Of Ut
feet on Twenty -sixth street Mr.. Vierling will
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houses for investment purposes Mr.. Shake
shaft was formerly connected with rail-
road company in this city, but is now the
passenger agent for the Atchison Topeka
/ & Sante Fe company at Kansas city, The
lots represented a part Of his investments,
while resident Of Omaha.
Ernest II. James has sold his large house
and lot on Thirty-ffth street near Wool
worth avenue to James II. Robertson Of the
Cudahy Packing company for $3.50. The
sale was made through the Byron Reed
| company and the house will be occupied
by Mr.. Robertson for a home. 1t faces
east on T'hirty-hfth street and Is near the
Field club.
William r. Morand, the dancing teacher,
has sold his two-story frame house and lot
at the southwest corner of Twenty-seventh
and Dodge streets to Francis V. Wilson
for $4,000
f. T. Yates. the druggist who recently
bought the home OF ]. J. Gibson on Writ
street. between Twenty-frst and Twenty
second streets for 81, 400 has sold his old
home at the southwest corner of Twenty
fourth and Bnney streets to Mr.. Det-
weller for 1880.
Confidence In Crows
The confidence which western land
! dealers nave IN the ldIu III All6 NtHAtl II
part Of the state is evidenced in a circular
which Phelan & Black, brokers of Alliance,
Neb., have issued They are offering to sell
land for Sl5 an acre and offer to make
good their claim that the land is most
productive by the following clause in their
circular;
To substitute this we are ready to
contract with any man who buys a farm Of
us to take one crop from such farm and
board the cars to US at Alliance, We will
deed him the land free. and If such crop
be potatoes we will give the farmer all
over 10 bushels per -n-c that the entire
crop yields
Records Are Gratifying.
Transfers Of real estate Monday. as re-
corded in the Office OF the county recorder
of deeds, reached record proportions and
was the cause Of much favorable comment
Tuesday among the real estate fraternity.
while the total amount of the transfers
amounted to only Si7.2iO several 81 transfers
were made, which would materially in
crease the actual value Of the property
transferred. But it is not in the amount
Of the sales made as in the character OF
such sales which is the cause for gratlfca-
ton among real estate brokers. Prac-
tically all the deeds recorded Tuesday were
representative Of actual bona fde trans
actions Tor value received and were not
wash sales" estate transfers or trans
fers for the purpose of clearing titles or
for technical reasons. Neither were any
of the transfers for tax purposes, but al
: most every deed recorded represented a
bona fide transaction.
when I looked at that list OF transfers
this morning it seemed that the good old
boom days OF 1889 had returned" said q
prominent real estate agent Tuesday morn.
ing. Such a showing for one day in actual
transactions is cause for much congratula-
ton and is indicative OF the strong demand
for Omaha real estate. which has beer
growing for some time"
The transfers Monday were larger in
bona fde sales than have been recorded
during one day for some time and severa
, real estate men were OF the opinion thai
they were the largest for at least ffteer