The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-05-08

| The real estate market has been COM
paratively quiet during the week. with
ths principal brokers busy selling lots for
home sites In the suburbs and residences
Of moderate price. Sales Of dwellings re-
ported cover all parts Of the District, spe-
cially In outlying sections, with a small
! sprbnNling OF deals in business property
and houses in the older portions of the
city.
One OF the principal sales was reported
by Shannon d Luchs OF the residence at
ZIP Bancroft place Daniel j. Amber. a
retired banker of Tampa, Fla. was the
purchaser, and will make Washington his
home. Mr.. Amber paid $4,000 for the
property.
The house contains fourteen rooms and
three baths. and is of the colonial design
with kitchen on the first floor All floors
throughout the entire house are OF the
parquet style, and tho homo is heated by
hot water.
Atlanta Woman Buys Home.
A similar sale Of property 20 a Southern
investor was three houses, one at 1854
Eighteenth street northwest. one at 100
Tenth street, and one at 7A Fifth street
Mrs. Julia Russell. Of Atlanta. Ga was
the purchaser, and for the three proper
ties she paid about $4,000. Two Of the
houses have each ten rooms. and are
semi-deJached.
Alexander Millar has sold the property
at 1907 New Hampshire avenue 20 James
T. Metcalt for $50. This is one OF the
row OF six Mr.. Miilar recently completed.
Frederick L. Moore has sold the lot at
Thirty-fourth and Lowell streets Cleve-
land Heights. 70 a local business man.
who win retain it as an investment The
price paid for the property was about
$3.50
George A Rankin. Of New York. has
Just purchased the residence at 1924 Park
road northwest II contains twelve rooms
and three baths, hot-water heat. and the
lot is about twenty feet wide by nearly
200 feet deep. The price paid for the
property was about 5000. The property
was sold by James T. Metcalf
The y L. Sansbury Company has sold
for VI. H. HERMAN the detached house
recently erected on lot No. IA. IN square
1921. Saul's Addition. This house is Of
pebbledash and frame construction, and
contains nine rooms, cellar, and attic,
with porches on three sides II is IN
ished in hardwood and heated by hot
water The lot has a frontage OF forty
feet on Decatur street by depth Of 164
feet to an alley. The price paid IS un-
derstood 10 have been $3.50
Robert II. Hill has purchased from 4.
L. McPhearson his bungalow at Drum
mona, Nd. The lot is about Is by $50
feet The price paid for the property
was about 5000
Building Activity Increases.
The most striking feature OF the real
estate situation is the building going on
all about the city Current reports from
the Office Of the Inspector Of buildings
show 81 per cent greater activity IN the
month or April than for the correspond
ing month last year. The number OF
permits for the month was 1881 COM
pared with lS.3SS a year ago. The esti-
mated cost OF the structures this year Is
$50, 301 49, and that Of year ago S64.345.553.
This activity is apparent wherever one
goes. In the city the vacant spaces are
fast building up. Much Of the older prop
erty is being torn down to be replaced
by new buildings or extensively remodel
ed. This process is going on through the
margin Of the business section where old
houses are fast being changed into bUsl-
ness places. This form Of activity is par
tlcularly noticeable between New York
avenue and Thirteenth street and along
II street between Ninth and Seventeenth.
City Expands All Around
The city is spreading in all directions
specially n0rthward. northweStward and
northeastward. In these directions moth
ing exists TO stop the progress Of affairs
in the building line. and the rapidity with
which new houses are going up leaves
one in doubt about the various estimates
OF the probable growth OF the population
in the last ten years. Houses are liter
ally going up by the hundred and in
most instances they are built for the
owners OF the ground for homes, or are
sold almost as soon as completed TO fami-
lies who occupy them. Comparatively
speaking. the sales of residences this
year have almost nothing Of the invest
ment feature about them
The activity in the city extends out into
Maryland and over into Virginia. so that
whether the increased population Of the
city itself is 1900 or $1,000 according to
the Capital has attracted
much more than that to itself and its
vicinage.