The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-04
NEW DIVISION TO
Be PUT ON MARKET
Several Sections of Suburban
Realty Soon to Be Offered
For Sale.
WINTRY WEATHER HAS
BAD EFFECT ON TRADE
Despite This Fact. However. Some
Good Transactions Were Closed
During Week in City
Property.

II the face of weather that bore
the earmarks of winter rather than
summer, Richmond realty operators
succeeded in holding their own dur
great magnitude were noted. but. on
the whole, they say business was far
from being unsatisfactory. Activity
in suburban property was perhaps not
SO marked as IN previous weeks. the
weather keeping many prospectors
indoors. at least. we'll within the city
limits. There was the usual amount
Of trading in all kinds of property,
however. and a number of substan-
tiai deals in the city were closed.
With fair. seasonable weather next
week. the agents anticipate greater
activity. and they believe the weather
man is going to give them a better ar
ticle than he did the past week. now
that June has been ushcred in good
and strong.
Put ON New Divisions.
Several new divisions will be put
on In the West End shortly. and that
means that the operators have con-
fidenee in the outlook. one of these
divisions is Colonial Place, located di-
rect1S west or Lee Annex. II con-
tains thirty eight acres. divided into
several hundred lots. The property
viii he placed on the market next
Monday by the Abbey Realty Cor
poration. Another division is Monu-
ment Annex. consisting ~ thirty nine
acres, which Blanton a Co. win offer
to- the public within the next week
or ten days. All the streets that run
westward through Lee Annex also
penetrate this divisi n. sim another
suburban sestion almost ready for the
market is the Westbrook property
which George +. Miller. of New York
recently purchased. Streets and ave-
nues are now being laid out and the
property plotted with a view Of being
offered in building lots in the near
future. Several sales Of these lots
have already been made. and the
prospects for other sales when the
property IL pat on the market are
said 10 bo exceedingly bright a part
If the division Wall be known as JET
ferson Park and the remainder West
brook.
Good Sales Closed.
During the week Pollard x Bagby
closed several important sales. one
OF these was the property fronting
thirty-three feet on the southeast
corner of Broad and Monroe s1-eets,
which passed from Millhiser. Clar-
ence aand others to Jacobs Il Levy
for the consideration Of $e7,SsT. Two
small frame shacks are located on the
property which was purchased as an
investment.
Other deals put through by this
firm are as follows.
Brick store at I32 East Broad and
two brick stores at So63oS North
Second. which passed from John F.
Davidson TO Dave Marks for $4,000.
TIVE, three-stoFy brick dwellings at
2s07-2s09 Hanover avenue, w. f.
Drinkard to II, ID. Garland; consid-
Grafton. $4,000.
Elam a. Funston announce the FOL
lowing dsals closed.
Brick dwelling at 307 West Frank
lin, Mrs. Helen p Christian To A. L.
HoUaasy;- consideration S. 500
Two frame dwellings at 21i5-s11T
Taylor street. w. s. Bell to w. It.
Lewis: consideration. $500.
Ginter Park Booming.
The Gtnter Park Land and I'm
r,royeu,rnt Conn Aify-aHaeaHees that
there are twenty-odd homes in course
of erection in this suburban division,
and that a water tank Is being put
up. The tank will he ready in the
course OF the next few days 1t Is
said.
BIanton & Co.'S sales during the
week aggregated about $4,000. OF
this amount $1,000 was for several
lots on Grove avenue and $13,5o0 for
two brick homes on kensington ave-
nue..
Ruehrmund g. Bowles, who handle
a good deal of Washington ward
property, report business rather dull
in that section during the past nve
or six days. Activity, they say. was
confined chiefly to the upper and
lower end OF Hull street. They had
about $1,000 worth Of sales In this
territory to report altogether Out
In Ginter Park the firm sold two lois
and a house at figures ranging close
to $4,000. The firm also sold to l.
f. Atkins a 20o-foot lot on Brook
road for $4,000.
Expect Big Sales.
f. A. Catiin 4 Co. had no sales OF
consequence to announce for this
week, but the firm expects to pu1
through several deals next week that
viii 70 beyond 100000. T. Lynch
Hubbard. formerly with Paine 4 Cor
ling. Is now with this Arm, having
succeeded John w. Bates. who open
ed Offices for himself June l in the
Eighth street realty. row. Mr.. Hub
bard has earned the reputation OF be-
ing a thoroughly posted real estate
man, with business property as spe-
ciaity. He says he has closed more
than a quarter OF a million dollars in
deals since last October. Just 1t pres
emit he II devoting some time to COM
piling a complete list OF property for
reference purposes.
Mr.. Bates, whose place In located
several doors from II. A. Cntiin q Co..
says he has started off we'll and hopes
for better things. He has already
cllnched couple Of good deals. he
says.
Amos II Poindexter report sales
amounting to $4,000, ono being q
farm near mo city. Several city