The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-10
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING news
Expected Mid Summer
Dizziness Is Here, With
Exceptions to Rule.
HANDSOME HOME.
CHANGED HANDS
Real Estate clearings for June
Surprisingly Large in the Foot
ings - Hot Weather That
Was Too Warm for Hus-
ting Suburbanites-No
Cessation in Building.


With intensely hot weather all OF
The past week. and holiday to begin
1t with. and with almost daily showers
OF rain TO seriously interfere with the
few auction sales that were announced
there can be no wonder that the real
estate business was very dull. One Of
the leading real estate firms did not
attempt to mako ay sales. but con-
tented itself with office work and the
closing UP of several large transact
tons that were really made two
weeks and more ago. Another took
the week TO clean up" delayed corre-
spondence, and do other office stunts.
sun another spent the time posting
books and getting rental matters in
ship shape. The senior member of
another concern said to the man of
news: What's the use worrying
about business when all tho buyers
who are Interested are out of town
trying TO keep cool on the seashore or
In the mountains. No use in trying
10 sell city property with a iorrid
wave hanging all over 1t and all
around II and all under 1t"
Exceptions to the Rule.
And SO II went pretty much all
along the line. with here and there an
exception in the general dullness. The
exceptions were numerous enough to
run the total sales. including suburban
In the mountains? No use in trying
about. probably nearly or quite $780,
600
One firm reports tho sale of &c.,
900 residence and two smaller houses.
and also 500 feet Of ground in Monu-
ment Annex. Another tells OF the sale
of 3i6 feet OF ground on Hanover
Street, between Cleveland and T1lden
Streets, which property will be cut
up into fourteen building lots. which.
will be put on the marhet Another
tells OF the sale OF twenty-three-
acre farm out on the Richmond. Fred
ericksburg and Potomac Railway, a
few miles from the city, for which
$4,000 was taken In. and also about
$4,000 worth OF city property.
Fine Residence Sold.
Another tells OF total sales amount
ing to nearly $4,000. all Of which was
residential property. There were,
perhaps. a number of other small sales
that reticent dealers would not tell
about enough of them. perhaps. added
TO the above. and a big Monument
Avenue deal to run the total UP in the
neighborhood OF the hundred Thousand
dollar mark. The Monument Avenue
transaction referred to was the sale OF
the handsome home OF l. w. Pizzini
which brought $4,000. DeSoto D.
Fitzgerald was the purchaser, and that
gentleman will make it his home. The
sale was made through Elan e. Euns-
ten.
june Rcnlty Clearlngs.
The real estate clearings for the
month of June as compiled by w. E..
Purcell. Jr., from the record books in
the Offices of the clerks OF courts
make a handsome showing for last
month. 1t will be seen that the sales
were the largest for any month for
the past twelve with just one excep-
ton. Here are the figures:
Old city limits
Improved property--.......$ s23,759
Vacant lots. 1S1.347
Annexed section, exclusive OF Wash
ington Ward
Improved property. --.....- $500
Vacant lots. 5S,O77
Suburban lots and improve
ments 2H,1oA
Suburban OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1S3,s65
In the Suburbs.
It is very hard to turn down the
average suburban real estate seller
and trader, but the torridity of the
past week sweared him partially OF
the track. that is to say, he did not
put forth his usual determined efforts.
1t may be that he. like a city property
dealer quoted above. discovered that
the bulk of the desirable buyers were
skirting about the mountains and
skir:nlshing around the seashore.
There was something doing, however
and transactions We're made in the SUI
burbs to the north. to the west and
to the south of the city, a right con-
siderable sprinkling of it, not few
lots and some improved property
changing hands In Ginter Park, Bat
terry Court. Westhampton, Woodland
Heights, Bensley and other suburbs
out on the whole it must be said that
the suburbanites had their full share
of the prevailing hot weather dull
ness.
woodland Heights.
Manager Cover says that since Man.
chester became washington Ward. in.
terest in residential property on the
south side OF the James has greatly
Increased, and this is particularly true
OF Woodland Heights and he predicts
that 1t will soon develop into the
Lee district" Of that territory,
Sewerage and water supply prob
LENS which so sorely veN some SUI
burbs, and even portions of Richmond
land Heights, thereby saving the
homebullder many dollar and muci
worry: to say nothing Of the "healtt
insurance" which these utilities af
1ord, The water supply Of WOODLAND
Heights Is being very largely increas
ed to supply the rapidly growing
needs OF the section. The compan!
disposed of twenty-five lots during tn
month of June. The two weeks o
rainy weather greatly hindered al
real estate operations.
Bensley Village.
SIX miles farther out on the Soutf
side is lI3ensley Village, and that local
lty, too. is right in the limelight.
Two more handsome homes IN tn
village are IN the final STAGES Of g. com
pletion, three others are now unde
construction, and It is expected, tina
several will be commenced within ,
very short time on the different lot
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