The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-23
SEEK RURAL HOMES
Rich Families Buying His
tOric Spots in Dixie.
LOCAL BROKERS MAKE DEALS
Washington Real Estate Men Who
Extend Operations Far Beyond
boundaries of the DIstrict-New
Glass of Business Growing Up in
the Hands of Local Agents.

When real estate operations are men
toned the idea generally conveys buy
ing and selling property in the District
/ OF Columbia or the immediate vicinity
In Maryland and Virginia. II is true
that the efforts Of the majority Of brok-
ers In Washington are devoted 10 just
this class Of property.
For a few years back, however, there
has been growing UP in the Capital oper-
atoms Of some magnitude that have 4
wider scope than the popular idea Sew
eral brokers have turned their attention
with much success TO deals in property
at a distance. and some sales have been
pulled OF by Washington men for cOun-
try property in Virginia and other States.
and a few brokers have made good COM
missions on property sales at Newport
Bar Harbor, and other resorts in the
Northern States.
Sells Villas Up North.
One OF the brokers who has carried
on this class Of sales is Frederick May.
For a part OF the year Mr. May has an
q
does a good business renting cottages
and selling homes and villas 10 Wash
ingtonians and others who desire sum
mer homes on the Northern ocean coast,
il the New Hampshire woods. or other
points away from the rigors OF Wash
ington summer.
Several brokers have from time 20
time been instrumental in negotiating
sales of farms and country estates in
the Loudoun and Shenandoah valleys.
and al other points in Virginia and the
Carolinas. Il Is no uncommon thing for
some Washingtonian or buyer from the
North TO drift into the Capital and give
q local broker q commission 10 buy a
country place at some point in Tidewater
Virginia or the Piedmont region Of North
Carolina Our brokers being enterpris-
ing. undertake these operations and
carry them through 10 success.
Gives His Time to II.
one local broker. Grant Parish. gives
most of his time to this class of prop
critics. He even extends his operations
to Great Britain He keeps advertise
ments going in several English papers.
and has sold TO Englshmen homes il
the United States. Mr.. Parish is now
in Florida looking up several large
places for winter homes which his
clients in the North desire 70 buy there.
Mr.. Parish has sold within a year or
so a dozen or more OF the historic farms
in Virginia 10 wealthy people from the
North and the West He has found
homes for others in North Carolina and
some along the ocean and inlets OF the
coast down 10 Florida.
In recent talk about the matter he
said that he found this class Of business
specially interesting and profitable. He
becomes acquainted with some Of the
foremost people of the country and
comes into possession of many facts
about the old historic homes Of the ma
ton. He declares that rich people Of the
North and West are after places with
history In the South He says that
part OF his duty as a broker is 10 find
out authentic facts about these old
homes, and that generally the history
and romance connected with an old plan
tation goes further toward completing
the deal than the fertility Of the soil or
its accessibility 10 the tides Of travel.
Business VIII Expand.
Mr. Parish is Of the opinion that not
only the rich people Of the United States,
but those of foreign lands will more aud
more seek fine homes in the South. He
says the States below Washington teem
with country places which. with cont
paratively small outlay, can be made to
surpass almost any rural home in Eng
land. and that some Of the enterprising
families Of Britain are getting places of
abode here,
Mr.. Parish believes that the search for
such places of abode on the part Of rich
people has Just begun, and that while
he is in a measure a pioneer in the bust
ness Of supplying this class Of property,
others will find and follow Il in the fu-
ture
That Washington should become the
leader in this kind of real estate opera
tons in natural, considering the fact that
it is the Mecca of all good Americans
and the place of all others which for
eigners delight most TO visit