The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
news OF REAL ESTATE
AND NOTES OF BUILDING
Somewhat More Brightness Among
Local Agents-Aioney Getting
Considerably Easier.
RICHMOND MEN LOVE RICHMOND
Dirt in Father Byrd's Good Old City
Always Pays One Hundred Cents
in the Dollar or More-Confldence
is UnShaken,

There is n tightness In the money
market. there Is no doubt about that.
but all the same there is II confidence
in Richmond real estate that cannot be
shaken, whatever may be the sensa-
tional reports from the wars and the
rumors OF wars away off yonder in for
cign countries" Thus spoke n Rich
rlond real estate agent to the man Of
news yesterday. This agent then went
ont to give some figures that he had
gathered from the official reports of the
clerks OF the recording courts to show
that the same recorders had been kept
right busy during the past week mark
Ing down deeds and all the like of that
showing that there has been some ac-
tivtty In the real estate business Of the
past week in spite ct all OF this war
talk.
Tie deeds recorded for a week past
may not all be OF very recent date,
but they do show that there has been
something doing In the real estate
realm for certainly month past. In
the courts OF the city and Henrico
County. which, till annexation takes
place, is largely n part OF Richmond,
more than 200 deeds were admitted to
record within the past week, and. as
far as could be learned. each and every
one Of thcse deeds represented bona
hde transaction in real estate.
NOBODY HAS LOST
CONFIDENCE IN RICHMOND
MI of this means. If it means any
thing Mt all, that Richmond men OF
meals, the folks who have Some money
TO invest, are not very much scared by
the war talk. and haze co.ne right down
to the idea that whatever may he the
talk OF war and the crushing Of values
of stocks in Wall Street and the drop
ping down of the estimates of railway
stocks. the fact remains that Richmond
dirt Is always going TO be worth ex-
actly 100 cents In the dollar, and maybe
mure.
There has. of course, been some Rich
nond money invested In stocks and
bonds. and all the like OF that, but IT
may be a good sign OF the times that
stocks to a certain extent, and rein
vesting In good Richmond dirt. 1t
may have been, or may not have been
due to this fact very largely that some
OF the good sales OF Richmond realty
which have been heard about care TO
pass in the shank cpd OF :ie past
week. 1t is said that there were in
the last two days OF the week some
right big sales, one on Franklin Street
that hit the $4,000 mark; another on
nearby street that touched the beam
at something over $4,000, and still
another DOWN in the Main Street sec
tion, that footed up something like
$4,000. The deeds that will tell in
the tinality of these deals have not
yet been filed with CLERKS Of the
courts, and the signerH and makers Of
the deeds are very rcticent az to par
ticulars. but all OF the facts will com
out In the wash, and the wash will
have to come about ere long.
SOME BUaINEss OUT
IN THE SUBURBS
There has been some right good hu.i-
ness in the suburban sections. North
Richmond seems TO be OH something
ofSa boom. and 1t Is said that home
builders In that region do not find much
trouble in getting a,l the money they
need for building purposes.
Gintcr Park, which In few days
will be Richmond. keeps right or
ADJOINING. Forest Hill. OH the South
side OF the James, which is so soon
10 be n part OF Richmond that Iia skins
Hobson has had to emiGrate to Bon
Air, is doing something great in the
way of real estate stunts. Two deals
in that part of Greater Richmond got
on the map last week.
-Four sales in Barton Heights have
been reported since Thursday last. ana
1t looks as If annexation is making
things hum over in that region. Sim
liar reports come from those regions
formerly known as Norwood and North
Richmond.