The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-27
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS.
Sales That Were Made;
Some That Are Yet
to Be Made.
MORE ACTIVITY;
LARGER INQUIRY
Contractors Who Build Houses
for Home-Makers Have Plenty
of Business-Money Easy
for Real Home Builders.
Industrial Sites Are
In Demand.

THE minds of the people have been
in TIE air all the week, and not on
the earth; hence the sales of earth have
been slow"
Thus spoke veteran real estate ma
yesterday. An explanation may be in
order. and here 1t is: The good old
brother who spoke as above has been
monkeyng in one way and another
With Richmond real estate for constd-
erably more than a quarter of CEN
tury, and 1t goes without saying that
within that time he has made enoug n
and more than enough. and laid up
enough to enable him to retire II he
would, and to be something OF sport,
and he is Just that, sport, although
the frosts of many winters hook his
beard.
Yes he is old. He was old enough
to charge at Gettysburg and TO do a
whole lot OF other stunts that were
required in the dark days that tried
great mems souls. and that especially
tried the artillery boys,
Being a sport of the first water, he
spent not little OF the past week on
the football grounds and the aero
plane grounds, and II the high flyers
would have allowed him to do so he
would have spent not little time
away up yonder above the earth, and
thus made his statement to me that
All things are in the air and nothing
on the ground" at least partly true
Notwithstanding the absence OF this
old codger from the real estate market
there was something doing, and a good
deal OF 1t.
Solid Business on Hand.
1t Is true, as heretofore outlined,
that the spectators are not as mucn
in evidence as they used 10 be, but the
real investors. the folks who want the
sure enough ground. on the ground
rather than on paper, and have the
money or can raise II to pay the same
are very much in evidence, and there
Is not real estate agency in the city
that has not heard from people OF this
Kind during the past week. The actual
sales for the past week foot UP to
something more than $4,000.
The speculative sales, IL 1t were
proper to include them, would likely
more than double these hgures but /
am not dealing just now in speculative
and swapping figures.
me real sales include transactions
In all parts OF the city ana away out
In the suburbs. The bulk of the busl.
ness was done In home property, large
1y in the West End, ana yet there were
come good sales on Church Hill and in
the far east sections. One OF the
agencies reports cool sales of Leigh
street property, and a whole lot OF
ground in what was once known as
jackson Ward. In this territory one
agency alone reports the sales OF some
thing like $4,000 of property.
Things That Were Done.
Among the big deals OF the week tho
following are perhaps worthy of men,
tion: DR.. E. c. Cobb bought the resi-
dence. So4 East Leigh Street, and paid
for the same $3.50. Mrs. Jennie Smith
made big investment at the corner OF
Grace and Robinson Streets, paying
$500 for corner lot there. Dr.
George W. Guy, Jr., bought 415 West
Grace Street. and there is a report that
ne paid $3.50 for It. It was also said
that II. S. Wallerstein made some big
Investments in Ginter Park properties
dur!ng the past week, and that he also
turned a few tricks in the old city
limits. which tricks foot up something
like $4,000.
There was not little doingin the
swapping and trading business dur
ang the past week. A great big trans.
action In West Broad Street property
would probably come under this head.
Up about 705 West Broad, P. B. Hatch
er and j. IL Chapel have been doing
some swapping. While the deal was
somewhat in the nature of swap the
records show that more than $4,000
OF property changed hands, and the
real estate agents and the court clerks
got their commissions and fees all the
same.
The Charles A. Rose Company some
what enthusiastically report a big
weeks business, but while they spread
the same all over whole lot of ex-
.pensive blue paper they utterly fan
to give any particulars that are worth
q cent as real estate news item
They claim to have sold $4,000 Of
Richmond dirt and bricks during the
week
Westward, Ho!
Out In the direction OF the Battle
Abbey property there has been not
little of activity. and it seems that
there are many folks who want to
Socate their homes near to this histor-
ical point, Out In the suburbs, such
OF them as are on the trolley lines,
there has been more or less active bus
mess, and while the agents who handle
this kind of property are trying very
hard not to let their left hands know
what the right hand is doing, espe-
|cially II the left hand happens toa be in
touch with newspaper man, the fact
mas leaked out that some people who
want to live close to educators and gar
deners and ruralttes generally have
been gobblng UP lots In Westhampton
and Westham, close to the forthcom-
ing Richmond College, and that other
folks who have similar views, varied
pnly by denominational considerations,
are scuftling around In Ginter Park and
Brookland and Highland Park and
Parkland and Battery Court and in
other suburbs that offer something bet
Yer than continuous noise.
ss About the Agents.
+ Oh, we'll, people who love the sub
prbs don't love city noise. People who
Fon't mind noise love the city. Great
big old Richmond, with itsmagnifcent
huburhs and Its superior trolley car
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