The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-23
some GOOD DEALS
| IN REAL ESTATE
rwO pIECES OF MAIN sTIfEET
PROPERTY CHANGE
HANDS.
BRING GOOD FIGURE
POLITICAL CONDITIONS. SAYS ONE
AGENT. RESPONSIBLE ron
THE QUIET SITUATION
HERE.

That political conditions have as
much 10 do with the local real estate
s<uation as they do with the stock
ahd bond market was the opinion ad-
vanced by prominent real estate
man yesterday, and he advanced the
marked revival of activity until after
the Inauguration, and the country
bad resumed its normal sway. Next
week. said he. will be Quieter than
this week has been. I do not pretend
10 understand it. but l do know that
investors and spectators alike are
timid in times like these. 1t isn't
that they fear the change in admin
istration, for this time they welcome
if. but somehow they just play await
ing game until things get settled"
1t was not a dull week by any
Tneans, but just quiet There were a
plumber of sales OF more than ordi-
nary interest. good inquiries. no little
Trading. and some good loans,
Two Main Street Deals.
TWO pieces of Main street property
Changed hands. One was located be-
tween Sixth and Seventh and brought
s3S. 600. Gibhoney & Nuckols engi-
.Mered this transfer. and the other
was Il store near the corner OF First
street which brought $4,000. which
Richeson & crutchfield put over. In
neither deal were the details availa-
bile. @awM
In addition to the Main street deal
Eihboney & Nuckols report the sale
of Franklin street property for $4,000;
Boulevard lots agRregating $1,000;
IA Fifteenth street house, one on Ross
street. and Manchester and Highland
Park property. the weeks sales foot
ing up over Ss5.oee.
Richeson q Crutchfield also sold "A
-. 7. - =
for $4,000; four fats in Jackson
ward. and a lot on West Leigh street
amounting TO over $4,000.
Another Big Transfer.
One of the very interesting trans
f<<s Of the week was the purchase by
kcharies RI. West. of Cruulp & West,
of the lot at the southwest corner Of
Eighteenth and Cary streets. fronting
eighty-eigiat feet on Cary street Mr.
tate between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth. which now gives the firm a lot
liz by 1870 feet for the big coal yard
and dumping equipment which they
ARE establishing there-about f,50e
square feet of ground.
AZ the property sold straight
Through for $3.50 a foot, the, deal rep
resents an outlay of some considera-
Bile cash. Raah Il Company acted as
agents for both the seller and pur-
chaser in this transaction.
Robinson Il Phillips sold a Clay
street home last week for $3.50; two
houses in South Richmond for $4,000.
and a farm In Henrieo county for 81
Eoo. aud cooperating with Bowies &
zones engineered the transfer of
Grove avenue and jackson ward
Property representing purchase
price of $4,000.
Gofsan & Nash soid forty-five feet
IN West street. between Main and
Gary. at s25 a foot. and five lots In
Washington Terrace
Railroad Valley Booming.
Green & Redd report that the prop
|erty in railroad valley is going fast,
|over 500 feet having been sold In that
&ection in the past two weeks. Work
|cn Monroe Terrace apartments, for
which this Arm are the agents. is now
well under way, and by August LIST
|this apartment house. which will he
one OF the handsomest and most COM
plete OF it's kind in the South. will
he ready for tenants
r., f. Schmidt 4 Company report
business fair. inquiries good. with a
VERY bright outlook for future bust
ress. and In this optimistic outlook
Miller & Company concur. The lat
ter firm put sover $4,000 deal In
business property yesterday. bat de-
tails are not ripe for publication
T. Thompson Brown & Company
say that there is no prospect OF cessa-
tion In the activity of West End prop
|erty, particularly aroMnd Monument