The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-29
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS
Bird 's-Eye Looks Upon
Decided Activity in
All Parts of City.
AUCTION SALES
VERY NUMEROUS
BUSINESS Property in Demand.
Su bur b a n Development on
South Side Of the James.
Activity in the West End.
Washington Ward
Looms Up.

blrd 's-eye view OF the real estate
market during the past week shows a
distinctive increase in offerings OF
much realty at public auction. The
fact is that most all the agents have
been so busy with private deals as TO
have little time for auction sales, and
the auction season that usually begins
carrier In the year was somewhat de-
ferred
The past week shows decided
awakening in this line, and the offer
ings under the hammer many and
varied. extending from away out west
OF The Belt Line to as far cast as
Warwick Park, and comprising subur-
ban tracts and iots. manufacturing
dwellings and lots. central houses.
Church Hill and Fulton homes. Wash
ington Ward and Paramount, and
suburban realities of all kinds and
descriptions
Rains Made Trouble.
It is true The heavy rains during
t,alf tho week interferea seriously
with attendance. and some sales had to
be postponed because Of rain, while
others were run between the showers
and were fairly well attended and
successfully closed.
Among tho latter fortunate ones
may be mentioned the auction sale of
lots on Patterson Avenue away out
beyond tho Belt Line Railroad. BY j..
Thompson Brown G. Co. which brought
si2 per foot, which would average
about $4,000 per acre, establishing a
"high-water mark" in prices for lots
At this distance and in this section.
The same firm reports sale of an
other tract of land on the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
~. So ~ 1. . mar N "a
George Z. Jones, who proposes TO
at once build a home for his own oc-
Rieheson & cru,chaeld sold 4le
West Baker Street for $4,000.
Chafin & Co. sold the Warwick
Park property. about four miles east
OF the city. obtaining good price
therefor.
Other public sales were had by
Elan & Funston, Pollard & Bagby, G.
L. & II L. Denoon. Green s. Redd.
a. j. Chewing & Co. H. Seldom Tay-
lor. Anderson Real Estate and Law
Company. J. D. carneal e. Son and
others, with more or less success.
Many Private Sales, Too.
But business was by no means con-
fined to auction sales. for there was
something doing in private way. in
spite of lowering clouds and downfall
OF rain.
Hellstern & We'll sold tract Of
about eight acres to j, II. Lyneman on
lakewood Avenue for $1,000. possibly
for subdivision.
A number of Monument Avenue lots
near Meadow and Allison Streets
changed hands at about slS5 per foot.
amounting possibly to $4,000 or s2o,-
600.
A Broad Street store near Sixth
Street, sold by Charles A. Rose Com
pany, brought $4,000, and a Floyd
Avenue dwelling $4,000. Some Broad
Street lots near Laurel sold at $500
per foot: Main Street lots at $40 per
foot. and in all parts OF the city
various pieces OF good Richmond dirt
of greater or less value. swelling the
total sales for the entire week to
possibly s225.ooo or more.
A New Theatre, Perhaps.
In addition to the big Broad Street
sale made by Charles A. Rose Com
pany. that firm sold other properties
amounting to s2o.5oo more.
w. e. Purcell Company report sales,
altogether in the West End. amount
ing In the aggregate to about sl4,ooo.
Pollard & Bagby's big sale for the
week. to say nothing of a long string
OF deals not quite contaminated, was
the sale of ITO feet at the northwest
corner, OF Sycamore and Hanover
Streets. This sale was made for Mrs.
Hannah Greentree, and 1t Is UNDER
stood that the purchaser will proceed
at once to erect tenement houses on
the grounds,
Amos e. POND had somewhat
active business in West End property,
having closed sales In that region tnat
amounted to $4,000.
T. 1>l. n,Stt TO a c
cal circles over the arrival here last
week of William A. Brady, of New
York. who inspected several sites
with a Main Street real estate man
theatre, If he falls i'll his negotiation
With the Leath people The real es,
tate man would not disclose the loca-
lions. but admitted the fact and en-
pressed the opinion that i the Brady q, y
Negotiation with the Leaths. q new
theatre would possibly be erected by
one or tho other parties, and that a
substantial financial encouragement
had already y been cen s sitersa ,heh''
Washington Ward. since Its admit
lance into the Richmond family Is
proving thriving youngster. and
keeps well to the front, some valua.
Week We The most important, perhaps.
was this sale by the National Bank
Of Virginia to S. I. Beveridge and
others ef block of lots for about
$4,000.
AS usual, Woodland Heights comes
forward with a record week in activ-
ity. Thelcompany has SOLD the bunga-
Riverside Road. to D. G. o'Flaherty.
In addition to this sale seven buyers
took over($l2,0oO worth of Woodland
Heights sltts during last week.
"Expanstn" is the Watchword OF
property lot the acreage sort, and a
zig novemsnt is on foot to market
the large tract OF about thousand
acres lying between the James River
and Bon All, The plans call for a
bridge to connect with tho Westhamp-
ton territoryi
This Chesterfield section contains
some of thelmost beautiful building