The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-16
Dizziness as to Sales, but
Great Activity as to
Rental Propositions.
WEST END SALES:
DOWNTOWN DOINGS
Many Sales That Were Made.
Suburban Men Say Business Is
Good-Homc-Maker on the
Lookout-Rental Agents
Are Kept Very
Busy.

The real estate business for tho mast
week mas been Il kind of seven and six
proposition. Some of the agents have
gone to the seven mark, and a large
majority of them have fallen little
below the six mark. The simple fact
is that as general proposition the real
estate business. so far as sales have
been concerned. has been mighty duh.
There have been but few large sales.
Ihere are all kinds :. large deals be-
ing hung on the string, but the string
Is very stringy kind of thing. 1t
can stretch to all points of the COMPASS
mere may be on 1t prospective dealB
all the way from Ginter Park to the
extreme eastern part OF Richmond. and
from the Battle Abbey anywhere to
ulton. but at the same time there may
be but few real deals. | can set up a
whole lot of dope between these termI-
nails, but actual facts are little shy
Inc agents who put much stress upon
'ne rental business are in way enrhu-
siastic. They tell me that they are
more than busy arranging rental prop
os!tions. One of the oldest real estate
agents in the city told me yesterday
mat he had never known n time in his
twenty years of experience when there
was greater demand for houses on the
part OF renters. dozen others in.
iorsed this View. Tho renters are un-
doubleday very busy.
Some Sales.
As to sales. all of the agents agree
that there has been not a little of dull
ness. They tell me that most OF the
property owners have been too busy
paying taxes to worry about sales the
past week. However. some good sales
nave been made.
Pollard po.L
one the good property, West Broad
| street, for $4,000, and this seems 10
nave been the big sale of the week. The
| mouse is three-story business site and
| was bought as an investment
ficheson & Crutchfield report sales
amounting to about $4,000. G.bboney
" Nuckols tell of sales that footed ~,
| about 100000. Green & Redd sold civ
realty and farm lands that amounter
TO about 100000. This firm did a good
business In the West End in property
mat surrounds the Catholic Girls
school. on Stuart Avenue 1t is under
stood that the foundation of the Catll-
one Girls school was laid last week
and that the building Will be soon
erected on Stuart Avenue. and will be
an ornament to that part OF the city.
Green d. Redd have sold not less than
'oZen nome lots TO people VINO wIsn
to make homes convenient thereto.
W. NJ. Miller & Co. report saIos
| amounting to $4,000. mostly in, tho
West End Amos & Poindexter toll or
sales that footed up $4,000. They were
largely in the West End and ON Weat
Broad Street
In the Suburbs.
In the suburbs there was good bus-
mess Herbert Funston says the beam
tlful suburb of Ginter Park has lust
| closed very active week, both in tine
pudding line and In the sale of its lots
among the purchasers of lots last week
We're Q. c. Peers and Basil Webster
Coale, both of whom bouS I on Brook
avenue for building purposes. Eoss y,
Cauthorne and ~ a. Booth bought on
seminary, near Maplewood Avenue, and
VIII start attractive residences there
within the next few months c. w.
Eaton has started the construction of
his home on the corner OF Rennie' and
Brook Avenues
There is also other considerable iua-
provemcnt now going on in Ginter
Park With about sixteen or eighteen
houses under construction, tho work
progressing favorably at the pumping
plant. and a large force OF workmen
| engaged in the completion or
| additional streets and sewers. an air of
great development ana activity pep
vades that section. Considerable attcn-
ton has been attracted to the new ad-
dition to the park where about forty
lots are being provided with all city
he much interested in this annex, and
ALREADY quite number OF homes have
been planned for IL