The Washington herald., 1914-10-11
REALTY TRADING
MAKES Big JUMP
Total of I72 Transactions Es-
!. tabishes New Record
for the Year.
SUBURBS LEAD AGAIN
Building Permits Issued for $95. 900.
}. Most of Which Call for Con-
strucfion of Houses.
SUBURBS LEAD AGAIN

When the Isstf realty transaction Of
last week was recorded, the statistics
5ten6 among washington brokers started
out to inform his friends that record
for the year had been established.
There was decided increase last week
both in volume Of building permits and
number Of transactions. The record for
IN. vear-set at 1s7-was broken and a
record established OF ~.
Building permits were issued nor SIS, 900.
ana most Of this is for construction, as
opposed to recent weeks, when most
Of the permits were for repairs and re-
modelling
The Weeks Sales.
Sales were divided as follows: Monday.
thirty-two; Tuesday, fourteen; Wednes-
day thirty-eight: Thursday thirty-fve;
Friday, thirty-seven, and Saturday-a
half hollday-sixteen-
Charles e. Wire and w. NJ. Terrell OBJ
$riped permission to build, row, Of five
houses at IT3240 Lanier place. The
houses will be three stories, Of brick;
with hot-water heating They will cost,
altogether, $4,000. This was the largest
permit
MiddauEh and Shannon will build a row
Of six two-story houses at 5l2-62 Taylor
street northwest. They will cost $4,000.
A row of five tvo-story houses, to cost
S1Sooo. will be built by ]. S. Gruver at
sos -325s Eighth street northwest.
Mrs. Anna L Lukel had a permit to
build the most costly residence OF the
week. The three-story brick home will
be at IZ5 street, and will cost $500.
Col Charles L. McCawIey. U. S. NJ. c..
will have installed an electric elevator
In his five-story New Hampshire avenue
home.
A H. Sonneman has prepared plans for
the new residence at Thirty-eighth street
and Massachusetts, avenue Of Joseph T.
Baines. Mr.. Baines sold his home at
Aacomb street and Massachusetts, ave
nue. to Senator Simmons.
Other Permits Obtained.
Other persons who obtained permits to
build were:
c. F. stubler. two-story frame, at 71os
Fourteenth street. 1900.
w. c. and A. N. Miller, two-story
frame. at 3404 Macomb street, $4,000.
Mrs. Cecilia c. Burke, two-story frame.
at 2sJ7 Mills avenue northeast $500 ~. =
Suburbs had the best of, the trading
with i02 parcels: near-urban section, with
81: the northwest, with 60; the southeast,
with is; the-northeast. with Is, and the
southwest with l. = -. -.
ThFee business section trades verenego-
tiatsd. George S. Rees- and William n.
Lsnham purchased the property 1t 7ls
Eleventh street from Harry r. Tdrner
sn. ,oOO. W., Fred HoItzmsns bossht
900 the propsrty at 1252 PeRnsyl-
avenue The Real. Estate -Tft1er1
= -.. Company Ssld so 4 b1lsians ave-
.a the American Issue Publishing
~ for $1,000 Thomas J.. Fisher
a ..g have negotiated for Jean Paul
sEiH4r the acquisition Of. the lot at the
st corner Of Connecticut avenue
aas Irose street This gives Mr.. Miller
he tire ConnecticutI avenue frontage
Es.. n Nelrose and Lenox streets. Mr..
e,H-as has begun landscape gardening,
Wiz. We view of improving the property
for a new home to be built in April,
Is16
Thomas ]. Fisher a co. have sold to
Mrs. Anna NJ. Dodge the three-story
brick house at 1913 o street, northwest,
which Mrs. Dodge will use as her home:
and to Charles H. Taylor: a tract in
Macomb street, between Thirty-hfth and
Thirty-sixth streets. Mr.. Taylor expects
to buad on the property four residences.