The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-03
A Week That Was Not
Especially Active, but
Something Was Doing
MUCH BUILDING;
BIG SPECULATION
Most of the Real Estate Activity
Is in the West End-A Few
Big Deals About Which
Agents Arc Rather Re
ticent--Notcs and
Comments.

81 want To be honest with sou. and
tell YOU that business has been dull
this week" The above is the Ian
Guage OF a real estate agent who yes
tcrday talked neart to heart with tho
man Of ncws,
Bat he was lust ono man 4 mo-
nent later ran UP with Herbert Fun
stcn. the president of tile Ginter Park
Land Agency. and here Is what Fun.
stcn said. ana am quoting him lit
orally:
'Sot in the history OF beautiful and
attractive Clutter Park have building
operations been 90 active as they are
a; this time. n,th the following
twenty houses under construction. be-
sides the residences OF l.. w. Farley.
g. Il. Garnet, and Mrs. y. -. Is. Car
nett lust completed so! &c idea can
Dc had OF the wonderful development
and rapid growth which il going on
In Chatter Park. Mcssrs. r. c. Rutn,
T.. &. Eohlcr. J. J. Muttcrn, " j. Full
Ton. r. f.. Conc. w. .. Howard ant
heucen Burton arc building on Semi.
nary Avenue. carlton Mccarthy Ross
y. Cauthorne ana i. u. Carpenter on
Hawthorne Avenue, So. w. Morrissettc
and Halves C'olcmnh or Chambcrlayne
avenue. and Miss Hawcs IL building
Two UtuStS Oh the same avenue
an investment. j. :. Connolly, a. 4.
Chapman and y. {. Bedford are build
Ing on Brook Avenue. and three other
houses nave recently been completed
on this avenue .,,:. .:ouHcs mentioned
above range IN price from $500 to
$4,000. and It is estimated that over
si5o.ooo worth Of buildings are being
pnt NJ in Ginter Park at this time.
This wonderful growth is not sur
uriSinlr SI bu, h.
company opcratii... this suburb Is rem
drrinG every assistance TO the home
builder. and offers every inducement
10 people to locate there. They have
an up-to-datc water and sewer sys-
TEN. the lots of fine size and are
wisely restricted, front on attractive
streets we'll shaded and are bordered
by privet hedges This ha. done much
towards inducing the busy business
man to take advantage of suburban
life. Several lew hrcpluEs have re-
Gently been installed, and the property
owners in Glnter Park are now able to
get full insurance. Additions are al
ready being planned for the handsome
new school building. by which an up
to-date ventilating system is TO be in
stalled"
West End Talk.
Another agent that was run up with
told me that all OF the interest in
real estate was centred in the West
End. and he told of some big deals
that were made beyond the Boulevard
by which the buyers and the sellers
and tie spectators had made big
profits. and all that Kind of thing
The most OF .hc business done last
week was by Spectators and in.
vestors. and. according to the reports
of the agents their deals including
swaps and trades, amounted to some
thing more than half a million dollars
Among these deals were several
transactions on West Broad Street and
they were largely on the swapping and
trading order. Not less than two
blocks figured in these trades, and lt
is understood that some of the bought
property is to he improved. The fact
Is that the north side OF Broad Street
is in state of transformation, and
the time is not far distant when the
little onc-story stores along there Will
lie removed to make room for two and
three and nve-story business houses
At least that is the way the agents
arc talking.
The spectators and the investors
believe this kind of talk about West
Hroad Street property and they are
buying and trading accordingly.
Among the big deals of the past
week was nearly whole block Of
West Broad Street property. The buy.
crs and the sellers are very reuccnt
but 1t has leaked out that this deal
was somewhere III the 800 block on
West Broad Street.
Mighty near all OF the activity OF
the past week, and there was a good
deal of activity. was in West End
property. Among the agencies who
handle West End property there was
n great deal OF business. and it lie
probable that not less than 400 lot.
changed hands in one way and an.
other. To name the agents who figured
In these deals would be to take up
not less than column of space, but
they have made their commissions all
right, and that is ali they are in the
business for. They do not care about
personal mention.
@ To the Far West.
The West End movement is growing
! al the days go by. Away out fifteen
miles from Richmond. up the James
River acres are beginning to take
on the value of town lots. An agent
said to me yesterday that the James
river is about to become a Hudson
the Hudson of Virginia. I took issue
with him. More likely the Hudson is
becoming the James of New York He
ngreed with me after hal exhausted
some little eloquence.
Building operations are still on the
boom. 1t has come to the front that
r. A. Saunders. Jr.. has Just closed
contracts with builders for the erec-
ton of whole block of business
III houses on the north side Of Broad
street. to newest OF the Boulevard
= thirty five houses In all. 1t takes n
y lot or money to make these many
Shouses. but there Is O. demand for them,
and Saunders is just the kind OF fell