The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17
No Holiday Dizziness to.
Be Found Among the
Real Estate Folk.
BUSINESS GOOD
ALL THE WEEK
Agents Rather Reticent, but
News of Several Large Deals
Leaks Through the Sieve.
Broad Street Property
Changes Hands-Trades
and Swaps.

People who are looking for big bar
gains in real estate, that is to aay.
people who want to make n trade that
VIII pay profit overnight or
such matter. are talking about holt
day dullness and the surccase from
actual business and all that kind of
.hins, and this sort of talk may have
Its effect here and there, but II IS
not bothering tho holders OF good
properties, and is not affecting tho
market very much to hurt For the
past ten years there has been the usual
holiday dizziness noticeable Just about
this time, but this year there is an
eNSep.lon. Iherc Is no such thing as q
holiday dullness, The real estate mar I
ket was never more active than IL in
right now. During the past week tho
inquiry was very active and no prop.
critics that Is such as were not held
Ior extreme fancy figures, went begging.
Inc investors and the buyers were
nnuch more In evidence than they were
the week before. and no bargains wera
aiio"cd to hang on the string very
| long 1t is true that real bargains
were little scarce, for the holders
or real estate have their Ideas a nj
TIC inflated. have heard OF one man
] who has taken all of the monev ba
has and all that he can command fron,
wealthy estate from the stock
| market. and Is looking for Richmond
ana suburban property in which to In /.
vest, and he complains that the hold
| ers or such property are holding too
| sun Tor him. The holders probably
do not ask more than the propertv In
| really worth. This simply shows that
| there is no dullness in the real estate
| market There are plenty OF BUYERS
and they arc not taking any holiday
| either: they are merely looking for
parsains' We'll, as a matter of fact,
pnrgai-s arc getting a little scarce in
hlcomond and In the suburbs Rich
mond dirt Is worth every dollar thnt
Is being asked for II. ~
Good business Was Done.
| The business of the past week was
sood, the inquiry was better and the
actuai sales amounted to largely more
IMAM half million dollars, and thew
were actual sales, too.
| &c Is right hard to get the real estate
| uSchts to tell about their sales. bur
now and then some little information
ieaks out. Seldom Taylor G. Son made
some right big deals the mast week.
put they are reticent as TO detsils
Howe & Son We're smiling over at
least two large sales, but they re-
FUSED TO tell anything definite except
10 say that the same were In tho west
End, j. D. Carneal {. Son. who havc
| a way of not letting their right hand
know Just exactly what the left hand
Is up to. and they arc doubtless wise
In 1t, too, being hemmed up in
corner. confessed some right big saler
during the past week, amounting in
| inc aggregate to a little more than
100000: And they added that thew
never knew the inquiry to be moro
pronounced at this season of the wear
among their sales was some good
| Broh Street property that Is going.
TO be improved. some Grove Avenue
property that is strictly residential,
ana factory site away down town
mat neccssitated tho exachanse OF
something like $1,000.
| PolIocl<'s Good Sale
Probably the biggest single transac.
uon OF tho week was the sale of Gil.
pert *. Pollock's property at tho
northwest corner of Tenth and Broad
idge was the buyer. and by this pur-
chase ne adds largely to holdings ne
already had there. 1t is understood
mat Mr.. Bevcridgc has 1t in mind to
improve the property not little. and
II Is also understood that Mr.. Pollock
mace a pretty good profit by tho sale.
only Ave years ago he paid about
$4,000 for the ground and the Old
snack OF a house that no now rakes in
$4,000 for. -
Another bis deal OF the week was
kind OF trade. r. Francione sold
TO X: C. Williams his twenty-foot lot
on West Broad Street, between Taur.I
and Pine, for $4,000, and bought from,
| MT Williams residence 2405 Grove
Avenue for which he paid something
| over 1000. Carneal & Son enginner-Ss
Cd this double barrelled deal. and both
.he BUYERS were simply making what
theS regard as good and safe invest
ments.
| Various Notes.
| Williams & Cease did soma .t,hh
| lively trading during the past week.
lheS are rather reticent about these
deals but all the same II Is learned
that they sold two large properties
In the West End, one being 100 feet
or vacant property and the other near
~ as much. They also sold a Stuars
| Avenue residence for good nile OF
| money. and J. II. Chappell was the I'M
| vcstor
o, a, Hawkins. who is somewhat new
in the real estate business made SONS
large sales during the week, but he
does not like to tell about the de-
| tails.
| The Demons report two large sale.
OF country realty. but for the present
decline to so into details
Green & Redd sold about eight or
ten lots in Virginia Place last week.
and they say that up to now they have
como right close TO the disposing of
| 100 lots In that suburb. W{S
Golsan d Nash report the sailor or
property footing up little more than
$4,000. mostly in Wa5thampton.
Speaking of 'Westhampton: It is un-
derstood that the trustees Of Richmond
College at a meeting held last week,
| decided to double the appropriation
for building purposes at Westhamp-S
ton, and viii now spend 100000. in-8S.
| stead OF $i6o,o0o. as at first contcmy
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