The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-28
Something. Doing for a
Midsummer Vacation
and Holiday Week.
THE DULLNESS is
RELIEVEDBY RENTS
A Few Good Sales Here and
There-Agents Taking Things
Easy Enough-Real Estate
Exchange Now Reality.
Secretary Boykin Ready
for Business.

"I will just tell you the real es-
tate situation is little peculiar"
vith the above sentence as kind OF
Introductory. one OF the most promi-
men, Of the agents Lnbosomed Kim
self to m, yesterday. and guess the
things ne told me size UP the si,ua-
ton 70. the week much better than
could all OF the news l gathered IN
halliday tramp around the Offices.
for with but two or three exceptions
all the agents talked just Ike this
one Continuing. this one. and ne IS
q good one. said. There Is an cnos-
nous building boom on In Richmond.
People who build do not always nave
4i1au OF the money they need for build
ing purposes. and so they so cut and
borrow.
"1All OF we agents have good money
TO lend on good realty security. can
say that there has been more demand
Tor money FOX building purposes Ia the
last two weeks. OF I might say the
last two months. than ever before IN
the history o. Richmond This de-
uand has been especially urgen; dur
;ng this week. have been busy. and
I am sure every other gent IN town
has been busy making loans You
know there Is good dcai OF work
connected with the making Of a rea!
estate loan. The titles 10 property
must be examined. the records must
be hunted up and whole lot o, 9TH
or things must be done. and all OF
them take up lot of time. In a week.
when the loan business is active. as
active s IL has undoubtedly been dur
INK ;his week the agen, who has
money 10 loan has but little time TO
loog after anything else.
Grent Things Promised for Fall.
Then. 100. we are right IN tire midst
OF the renting season. and those two
things have diverted the attention Of
the real estate agents from SAFES al
most altogether. and II is we'll enough
that they have for the real estate
plunsers and the spectators and the
buyers generally are out o. town hay
ins their vacations, nd actual buyers
are really few and far between.
Nevertheless. he they at the
springs OF In the mountains or 2, the
seashore, they keep up their interest
IN Richmond properties. md their let
ters OF inquiry arc frequent and NUM-
erous. This fact indicates 10 ne that
we are coming on to the finest iall
business we have ever known
BY September all Of the rental
business Will be cut Of the way and
much OF the ioan.ng business Will
have been completed. and then look
our Cor sales, big sa!es. and a heap
OF them"
Stuart Avenue in Limelight.
All OF the above. which, DC 1: OBJ
served. is in quotation marks. is quite
less there was something doing X IS
a mighty cold day when the average
Richmond real estate agent is not do
Ing something. and we have not had
any cold days lately. Not less than
twenty-five agents talked with
smiled at mo and said something like
this: when am in the habit of
telling you about big sales and mi hty
deals that run away up yonder in the
tens OF thousands I don't want you TO
quote me when I have 10 cut the ng-
Ures down so much OF course. have
been doing some business, but the
figures are not Just up 10 my stand-
ard. and / would rather you would
not quote me this week. this midsuri-
mer. holiday season. dull week Let
the particulars so by this time"
And yet there has been here and
there some activity Out on far West
Stuart Avenue. where the Catholics are
b4AiAsitE NWp TNApo4 MUSES. ls'tlt is
active demand for residence property.
and Francis T. Green. of the nrm Of
Green & Redd who controls not a Ut
tie property out that way. has been
doing much selling for the past two
weeks and more lie is reticent as 10
detains, but ne was kinder forced TO
admit that he sold last week more
than twenty residence lots 10 people
who are attracted to this new educa-
tion centre by the school facilities and
other advanta ges.
4 Fed Particulars.
Gibbony x Nnckols tell OF some
right nice little sales they squeezed
into dull week. among them 100 feet
OF ground on Monument Avenue. at
the corner of Tilden Street: $50 feet
and five houses on West Leigh Street.
In the Scott Addition; a residence on
West Grace Street some Boulevard
property. some Church Hill property.
amounting to somewhere close 10 SaA.-
OUC.
Cover & Smith report the sale for
Miller & Rhoads OF l2l feet on the.
North side of Broad street. east Of
Hancock. and for the West End Homo
Building Fund Association of G36 feet
on Mulberry Street. between Cary ana
Beverly Streets This firm. in ccnjunc-
ton with II. 5. Hntzler x Co. also sold
1o0o-e West Broad Street for l. II.
Kaufman. These three sales aggregate
something over $4,000
j. Thompson Brown & Co made
Few sales during the week that footed
UP enough commissions to make life
worth living. but they say that their
biggest business was i'm the rental line
and in the matter OF loans
w. NJ. Miller & Co. make somewhat of
similar report. although they to-, me