The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-27
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING |. |. NEWS .|N'
All the Agents Busy;
Many Sales Made;More
on the String.
BIGDEALs INORDER;;
SUBURBS ACTIV E
Building Operations Everywhere.
New Suburbs Opening Up.
Agents Watching the State
Tax Assessors-Southside
Suburbs Encouraged by
Annexation Prospects.

ouOurOs Encouraged Dy
Annexation Prospects.
All OF the real estate agents have
been busy the past week--very busy--I
and yet the volume of business finally
contaminated within the ancient Dor
ders has been somewhat lighter than
In some OF the weeks that have recent
1y passed into time.
However. the agents have been busy: |
the few OF them who handle only city
property have been selling dirt and
giving deeds to the same: others have
kept busy showing property they hope
to sell and hanging bis deals ION the
string" for future consummatlon; 9th
ers have been racing around showing
business sites that prospective manu-
faotlrers, merchants and spectators
have an eye upon. and others yet have
been running their legs OFF watching
and besieging the State tax assessors.
who are Just now engaged In the
thankless task OF fixing values that
must claim the attention Of the tax
gatherer for the next five years TO
come.
Top Loft Figures.
Some OF these agents claim that the
bsseseOES are loo Tree Win the minated
ideas OF yalue that have been engen-
dered by the much CAB Of Spectators,
boomers and other folks who have
been talking high prices for Richmond
dirt for 10 these many days. These
agents are. of course. acting In the
interest of their clients and const!tu-s
ents.
The agents who give the most OF
their time to suburban property have.
been the busiest of all, for with the
coming OF the sunny days and the
blooming OF the fruit trees and the
budding OF the grass and the singing
OF the birds the magnificent suburbs
around Richmond are simply lovely,
. and all an agent has 10 do to make a
sale is to get man who has some
money and much esthetic taste to go
and take look
within the Old Lines.
Within the old city limits good
deal OF property is being sold on the
quiet and strictly private sales are
the order OF the day. Just why there
Is SO much secrecy tits hard to tell.
but the most OF the sales that are be-
Ing made these days are very private.
and agents are instructed 10 consider
everything confidential Hence It is
difficult. yea, impossible. to obtain
being sold in this private and very
quie. way is being taken both by spec
ulators or investors and By people VINO
propose to use the same for business
or residential purposes.
There Is active demand for all class
es OF property within the old limits.
and so far as anybody can discover,
there Is no falling off In prices and no
Indications OF any. On the contrary.
ii looks a little the other way, and a
constant complaint among agents Is
that they cannot get holders OF desir-
able dirt to weaken cent on the high
price they have set. Tho sales for the
past week within the old limits and In
the suburbs. as far as can be estimated
from the meagre reports the agents are
willing to make, will foot up about
3225,000. It is not far from the fact
to say that at least half OF this was
in the suburbs and the new part OF
Richmond.
Widespread Activity.
Tho actiyity-and there Is activity.
decided activity-in tho matter of that
kind OF inquiry which will most assur-
cdlylea to future good business Is not
confined to any particular section.
Like the present epidemic Of mild
= type OF measles. 1t Is all over town,
from far east of Fulton, through the
central sections and away out IN the
western and northern borders and the
suburbs.
one real estate concern is credited
with closing up a $4,000 deal last
week, and there is probably no doubt
of the fact. but the head Of the firm
declined for goal reasona, as he said
to give any kind OF particulars.
Another firm reports the sales OF
100000 worth OF property IN various
parts Of the city. including flats on
@ Park Avenue. vacant properly OF
Grove Avenue and houses&and lots on
seventeenth Street and other prop
critics In between these far apart
Iii. S. Wallerstein sold half q
block of vacant land on Hanover
street between West and Cleveland
Streets, but tho name Of tho pur.
chaser will not see the light OF day
untllMthe deed gets to record. which
will probably be this week.
Rumora and I,umors.
There is an apparently we'll authen-
ticated srumor, or several Of them. o.
several big deals that are on the
string and likely to dropSoff at any
moment. One Of them s$said to in
II volve change Of property to tht
amount OF 100000 Or more, but thu
rumor or rumors. cannot be chased
down to the dlvulging point lust yet
and after Ill they may be simpl.
rumors OF a more or less wild kind
Small property is very much in de
mand, The head of prominent f,rn
told the newspapers man that lie ha
during the astRweek sold this elias
of property all the way from Churcl
Till to the West End and to tn
Northside. and altog ether his sale
footed up less than 100000. AZ
From Hacks to Whites.
A big deed was sent to record yes
terday by j. Thompson Brown s. Go
the agents who engineered the dea
that made the record necessary. Thl
yol4lmlnous document, which was pre-
pared by Attorney a. w, Patterson
WAS the last chapter In q transactlo
that was made and reported in thl
column several weeks ago, 5s
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