The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-28
The Land Agents Likely to
Have No Holiday This
Season.
NOT AT ALL DULL AND
YET NOT VERY ACTIVE
Records Show June to Have Been
Best Summer Montl15for Many
YcarsNlorc Than Five
Hundred Deeds Have
Been Put to
Record.

tate market Is dull, and yet we cannot
boast of any. considerable activity"
Thus spoke one OF the leading agents
yesterday. and that seems to size up
the situation for tic past week. There
las been good business, but no rush !;
many sales, but no very large ones.
and many handsome deals hung on
the string and quite n number that
off and closed up. Altogether the
agents have had a very good weeks
business, In apite OF unusually hot
weather a part Of tho time. and 1t is
becoming more and more evident every
day that the tired gents will not have
much OF summer vacation this year.
The dullness that followed the panicky
times OF the last Of the old and the
first OF the new year is being made
up for and II is painfully evident that
the midsummer ay-off Will be very
brief this season, II 1t is not entirely
in the yocatlye.
Good Business Done.
The total OF actual sales the past
week. II tho real figures could be had,
would likely foot UP close to 100000.
1t took a large number of sales to
make this amount, for there were no
really large deals brought to a head,
the business in the main being con-
fined to the buying and selling OF
smaller houses. and lots and lower
priced vacant property.
Several large deals--one involving
something like S25.Ooo-are in the
swing--in fact. have been practically
made. but the clerk of tho court has
not set receipted for the deeds. and,
until he does. the transaction is not
closed, and no agent who knows his
business will Timber up" until an
official close up is in evidence.
Optimistic Views.
Mr. Leroy Brown. OF the, firm OF j,
Thompson Brown eco, yeste rday} said
/ TO Tie Times Dispatch man that the
month Of June had so far proven to
l,c the hest June the real estateimen of
Richmond havc known for the past
decade. Speaking of the business of
his own firm. lie said they had made
more real sales this June than ever
before in the same month. Many OF
these sales are not as yet a matter OF
record, for the reason that numbers Of
deeds are yet to- be recorded, being
held5up for a while for various reasons.
In some cases the signatures of peo-
pie who are across the waters are
necessary. and in others slight de-
fects in titles are to be cleared. ETC.,
but in every case the. transaction is
+ bona fide aud contracts have been
signed and forfeit money put up
rush OF Deed. for Record.
Clerk Savillc. OF the Chancery Court.
endorses Mr. Browns optimistic view,
and in evidence he submits the fact
that during the month OF June, so
far. not less than 500 deeds of bar
!. gain and sale have been handed him
for recordation and there arc several
days OF the month yet to hear from.
In no preceding June. as the bc1ks
Will show. have as many as 500 deeds
BEEN recorded.
Mcssrs. Dyer &. Ramsey report good
business for the week. Their sales.
55consisting ofAcity property on Third
Street. and on Taylor Broad and Mon
roe Streets. amounted to about $10.-
600. ALI of this was residence prop
crty, mostly improved, only two va
cant lots being on the list
j. Thompson: Brown & Company
sold something like $4,000 worth of
property. consisting OF several lots on
Hanover street upon which 1t Il un-
. derstood homes are to be built. and
other property. a. lot. sold by them
on Grove Avenue west &the Soldiers
Home at $50 q 'front.' foot is regaretl
as a record breaker In the matter of
price Of dirt in that locality.
This firm sold a farm in Chester
field county to Mr.. John II. Field, a
Kansas farmer, who has become tired
Of the blizzards Of the bleeding
I land, and has come to tho more salu-
brtous climate&of Old Virginia.
And Yet There Are More. 81
N1ossrs. III a. Connolly 8: Company
~,
ing to about $4,000. Among those
they are free to talk; about may. he
mentioned the sale Of West Main
Street residential property to De Mos
Ii chetti for $500, Tie purchaser will
Improve the prope rtyl for residential
e purposes. This firm also sold r ow-
land Street residence for. something
Ike the same CURE. Several vacant
lots brought the total UP TO the
4 amount named above. Ss
Blanton & Purcell sold during the
III week hal f28a block OF valuable Lee
District; two small Alatn9street! torres
II and several small lots and houses, ag-
EregatinE s13,20O.3 ii
They VII sell ut public auction tile
attractive dwelling N q. III 20 I'arls Ave
nue. 4 on csday, d a P,s M.;5sand #on
Wednesday,, at 6 r.. NJ, the substantial
Ii three-story brick res idencc, with large
70 7, ~ Q. ~ ~ HHlaSts broauB HStreet.@5{s
Charles a, r ose made n number Of
good sales. among them the following
Y No, 4 32a Z g rove Avenue. to q. B.syyil-
Eon, for S4,2oO; e No. 4 1a North Ninth
G Street, to Thomas II ,, Brown, for 81, 050:
No. 400 e Y North Fourth Street to
Robert Z. Settling, for s 900. sund
properties on q ST. Paul Street to S. j.
I Londoll for $l,745. M III a II
Among the Interesting ion sales
Nan, q az. ruesday af Earn u
q nj lock II At that hour they will
Is sci two Ia vel ings. an os, "A 80 and ia 81
Il South li y en- streot, pposl te Aud I
II rllln. n sil III & 4
pleS su burbs haze Been Efai rly active
tbs j. and deal
@ ICentiava - III a !sd Fsse.