The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS
Summer Dulln es S Ap-
pears to Be at an End;
Views of Optimists.
MANY GOOD SALES
FOR THE PAST WEEK
Outlook for Big Fall Trade Is
Very Bright--Sales That Have
Been Made; Others That
Are to Be-Money Is Not
SO Awful
Scarce.

the latter part of the week just closed
was somewhat OF a deterrent feature,
II by no means stopped the wheels OF
trade In the real estate circle. In fact,
At would take a kind of Noah's flood
to knock out the average Richmond
newspapers announced far in advance
that the bad weather OF the latter
part OF the week was scheduled to ar
rive at that time. and no people In the
world read the papers more closely or
TO better advantage than do the real
estate men. Some OF them. 1t is ,rue.
sometimes read between the lines. and
put In between the same things that
were never In the lines themselves, but
they read, all the same.
Hustlers Who Hustled.
In view Of the announcements IN.
the papers In the early days of the
week that bad days might be looked
for, the wide-awake fellows hustled
and made hay while tho sun was still
ginning, and before the predicted
showers and cool weather came, ac-
cording to prediction. These wise men
turned in good business, and thus IL
appears that the sales for the weak
footed UP much more handsomely than
they otherwise might have done.
amounting in the aggregate to some
thing like $4,000. There ere others
who say the week was dull because OF
bad .weati ana some attribute the
alleged dullness to other causes. such
as the scarcity of money. or an aiesed
scarcity OF money, and so on
The fact Is that the weather has
rot been very bad, and when II was
bad the badness extended over a very
sl.1rt period OK the week. only two
days. another fact is that there is
not an awful scarcity of money. Ger
tainIy not an unusual scarcity for this
time OF year II Is true every year
ius, at this time when much money
Is required In the movement OF crops
and for lines OF business dependent
upon the prompt movement Oh tGe
same, that the banks look especially
eftcr the crop ends OF their puslfiess'
and they ought to do it
solid business All the Same.
But none OF these things have any
very serious effect upon the reai es-
+nte business of Richmond, unless AZ
may be a little temporary effect OF a
f.w days only. There are optimistic
real estate men who have been IN tho
business enough years to De apie -
draw an intelligent annual average
who maintain that the business toi
the mast month and for the past week
.,as more than an average fox the
tnil end of a hot summer. And tnese
men are not only pleased with pres
ant conditions, but are really smlihs
over the good outlook for business Tor
noxt month. and all Of the fall months
to follow.
az course lust at this season, when
nriyate money lenders and investors
arc out OF town winding up their SUM
rner vacations in the mountains VI
elsewhere, their absence mas some
feet on business. A real estate maj
Interviewed yesterday told the man -
news. by way of illustrating this pu.hs ~,
that he had deals s"lhs.ns ca sar onn
..,r,nr amounting to more than S2s,ooo
tbat were still hanging there because
n the absence from the city OF .ust
nnn client who was not hurrylng oach
bnme for quite we'll he knows that
Inc narticular5 deal Will keep. anu IL !.
sass not there will be plenty more OF
5aaSs he can put his little s25.ooo into
Sseara the frosts bite all the green
,.,ne. In the flower gardens In the cles
and out In the suburbs.
nr.,ness That Was Done.
Among the old stasers "io, 20 ~ p
yora tntimated are snlAiins NC
LeIe arnsnects and about good sales
Urn, piasn hava been made the past week
lMAa. M mentioned Pollard & Bagny,
!hus E III, might they smile, for theY
w sen non Of Broad Street properly
at 21i East Broad. oan+
No, particulars were sl'en eNesps
.,.,s ~ .ta1 .huyer was an investor pure
nd sirnple and no changes VII po
eaada in the property or IN the pei pei
,a, NJ the present occupants Inis
e.r. so1d several other pieces OF P!op-
VIZ. wv rnnnine their total TRANSACTIONS on
~ "a; something like $10Oooo. SONS ~
the deals being not yet enureiy CIV
summated and some being ola mans
ers-on'' that may or may iol 1a 80
haen reported before, but we're ny
Anal1y closed until last week.
nna.. nn+ber pleasantly smiling gentle
a. mo manifested no fear when the
naaartorial 'aan Interrogation mark was
a,aae op under his nose, was LeRoy
1,na,yn Of the firm Of J. thompson
pno,vn q, Co. He said: or course,
h,,s,r ass has not been rushing, VINO
aSnacts 1t TO be at the shank end OF
s,in,,st eHpuS hefore the vacatlon-takers
Tvs taun - ,a+nrned to town? But all the
.a,na his shop has been doing some-
shinr and It is going to do q great
aaai more as the fall season opens
nm" NM Mr.. Brown reports some talrly
uaoa ~ sales for the week, small sales,
= E IT'S Is true, but encodraging all the
same. among them three clay slreet
houses for $780, a house on rurst
Street FOR $4,000, Fairmount dwelling
Tor about $1,000. and numerous 'l't other =
smaller properties. amounting to
little more than $4,000 in the aggre-
Many other Optimsts.
one Of the Demons, Of the firm OF
&c. i. & Fl. L. Denoon, was another OF
the old-stagers whose face beamed
with smiles, not SO much over what
had been done for the past week as
over what is in the air for the imme-3
tlate future,
NJ Bowe s. Sons report fairly
good business and an encourag ging