The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-27
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NE VS..
Week a Little Dull, but
the Agents Got There
All the Same.
RURAL PROPERTY
IN GREAT DEMAND
Many Farms Being sold-subur-
ban Property Is Active-Some
Good Sales on East Main
Street-West End Proper
ty Selling Well-Build-
ing Notes.

numerous as they have been during |
some other weeks. but the inquiry |
and tho many deals that wcrc put on
tho string that promise good business
Tor weeks that are yet 10 come were !
very encouraging. AS {. matter OF fact
most OF the deals that were really |
consummated consisted Of suburban
property. whore the people are buying |
vacant lots with n view OF building on
them later. Some OF the buyers of
this class OF property may have been
merely spnculating and expect to sell
the same on future days for n profit,
but In any event they think they have
made no mistake in buying suburban
property.
Maybe they have not.
Young Dealers to the Front.
Much OF this suburban property was
never heard of until young dealers got
TO pushing IL. For instance. the young
firm OF GolSan and Nash has been
talking up Wosthampton property, and
they have gotten not few OF invcs-
tory and home builders interested in
the same. During the past month they
have sold not less than thirty of these
lots. and In every case the buyer
seems TO be well satisfied with his
purchase and his prospect for future
profits. The truth is that these West
hampton lots are worth all the mon
ey that the agents are asking for
them and maybe "A great deal more.
At any rate, the buyers are very
well satisfied with their investments.
the evidence of which fact is notice
able in their re-investments. Golsan
and Nash report very good business IN
westhnmpton lots for the past week.
In the Old Times.
Seldom Taylor g. Co. have succeed
cd in disposing OF q goodly amount OF
East Main street. property at figures
that were eminently satisfactory 10
the sellers and so far as can be
learned equally Il. satisfactory TO the
buyers. While the Messrs Taylor arc
4 little reticcnt as TO particulars IL Il
understood that they have recently
sold about forty thousand dollars
worth OF East Main Street business
property at figures that were In every
way satisfactory both TO buyer and
seller. The buyers. {; was understood,
were permanent investors who were
very well satisfied with the profits the
property was already bringing.
Farm Lands In Demand
Many of the agents say they have
done business that keeps them SUN
ciently Interested, but none brag OF
very big things for the week except
the men who deal in country property
and farm lands. This class OF real
estate dealers Is always reticent and
every week refuse to let the lett hand
of the newspaper man kno" very much
about what th right hand OF the real
estate man have been doing. Neverthe-
less 1. has leaked out that the cold
waves of the past several weeks have
3 - l1.t rf WaCf
Northerncrs to the salubrious ell
mate OF Virginia and there is a rumof
going the rounds that not less
than a dozen farms have been sold
during the past week to Westerners
who have como to settle In Virginia,
not many miles from Richmond.
Matters Summed Up.
Counting the rural deals above out
4 lined in the general whole, it may be
said that the transactions of the past
week amounted to very nearly 5000
600 The bulk of this dealing was In
suburban property, and this is not re-
Earded as a very good season for deal
inr in suburban property either. Por-
haps all of tho real estate sold in the
older sections OF the city during the
past week did not take up more than.
half of this amount suburban lots
prsbably took up a quarter more, aud
the other quarter was in farm prop
crty not far from Richmond, Any
how, the agents got their commissions
whether they sold city dirt or subur-
ban property or farm lands, and In any
event they arehappy, at least such OF
them as made sales and got the COM
missions. 1t must be SAID, however,
!. that some of them made little or no
sales and as Il matter Of course tooN
in little or no commissions.
Ginter Park.
The Ginter Park people are of the
opinion that it never matters what
kind OF weather may come. they are
plways in It. asked Ginter PARK
man about things out there and mere
is what he said:
For lovers Of homo life Ginter
Park has many attractions Ihls
suburb has no smoke from factories
sliyored at the doors of residents by
city carriers two or three times a
day, and all Of the advantages of city
life combined With that Of the coun-
Try arc to be had there. II is pleas
ant place to live: the streets are good,
we'll made, and, moreover, Well kept,
and there is plenty OF shade. The
houses are all set back fifty feet
from tho street, and tho lots are of
fine size. with plenty OF room for
flowers and gardens.
The school facilities are excellent,
and the double street car service
makes 1t always convenient to reach
The city quickly. There Is no boom In
C;inter Park, and they do not want one,
though there Is steady ana active
demand for lots. Tho builders OF
homes are the only persons sought,
and numbers of people are taking pd-
vantage of the many advantages Of
fered.' H
Woodland Heights.
Well. the Ginter Park people are not
the only ones who do Dragging, For
Instance, there arc the Woodland
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