Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-25
REAL ESTATE RECORD
AND COURT CALENDAR
Encouraging Record Made by Local
Market, Notwithstanding
Summer Time.
DEMAND FOR SMALL HOMES
Agents Busy With September Rent
als-Houses With Modern Heat.
ing and Plumbing Appliances Are
Readily Taken.
DEMAND FOR SMALL HOMES
The Weeks Record

with continuance Of warm weather
and untold numbers Of the city's bust.
| ness men and others leaving the CITY
, !"' 'Ne various resorts. and wili, tho
logical near approach OF the usual sum-
incr dull period, the local market dur
Ing the past week has made a most en-
! couraging record.
| Not only has business been fair. but
the totals show that the sales that have
! been turned by the agents have been
exceedingly good at this season not
withstanding the conditions under
which they are laboring.
| Considerable attention is being paid
/ ny the agencies at this time to the
/ rental of fall property, and to date
there has been rented more than one
! half of the September houses. accord
! ing to reports yesterday in Real Es-
tate Row. There is reported also that
there is a fair demand for homes and
mat a large number of inquiries are
/ being received. Some Of these will no
doubt develop into sales.
SEVERAL LARGE DEALS
ARE PLACED on RECORD
| Several good deals found their way
! to the clearing house, the courts. last
week, and there are still others report
| ed by the agents to have been closed,
! bringing the total of tho week up to a
very nice figure. The records show that
/ 'ile safes deGIeEdleu more imam S23J,-
! 600, as compared with about $4,000
/ for tho previous week The MORTGAGES
! last week were larger than the safes
and there is said to be better feeling
on the money market in regard to real
| estate.
| In farming lands. ]. w Lord G. Co re-
| ported yesterday that they were hav-
ing good demand for small proper
ties and some good sales have been
| closed. a twenty-acre tract on the
| Darbytown Road was sold by J. II.
| Smith TO j. VI. Dacy, of Culpepcr
! County. The old Casselman home at
Centralia. which was SOLD last fall TO
D. 6. Green, was resold to Z. F. Seel-
| man. The price was not announced,
| but the figures are said to have been
satisfactory They also sold nine lots
| in Bccchwood Park. and most of these
properties were put over at satisfactory
prices. showing that local farming
lands have increased considerable In
| value.
TRADE: INVOLVES TWO
VALUABLE BUSINESS HOUSES
a trade of some Importance and in.
| volving. $4,000 was engineered through
| by Richcson & Crutchfield. Arthur l..
Straus transferred to Louis Baldacci
and Louis Marchetti two lots fronting
thirtyfour feet one inch on Eighth
Street, between Grace and Franklin
|
| was placed, according TO the tax paid
| on the deed. Baldacci and Marchetti
conveyed to Straus the two-story brick
| story at IS East Broad Street. The
| property fronts twenty-five feet five
, inches on the north side of Broad
street. just west OF First street and is
| occupied by y. S. Kellam e. Co. A valu-
alton of $4,000 was placed on this
! property.
| Another good sale Of the week was
| for $4,000, for a lot at the north
east corner of Eleventh and Broad
! Streets. This sum was paid by w. T..
! Harris to James *. Dunlop for the
, lot fronting fifty-eight feet. Davis
| Brothers sold to Norman II. Johnson
| the two-story brick dwelling at 10
| North Boulevard, fronting twenty nine
| feet, for $4,000. The William Byrd
! Realty Corporation sold to Archer G..
Jones lot fronting $50 feet on the
west side of Chestnut Avenue, at the
! corner of the Park Roadway in Will
liam Byrd Terrace. The consideration
was $4,000.
WEST END DWELLINGS
IN GOOD DEMAND
Wallace c. Saunders TO Benjamin c.
Garrett the brick dwelling at 2424
I West Main Street, for $500, and three
brick tenement dwellings, at 521. 623
and 525 Goddin Street. fronting forty
sale that developed only yesterday was
for the brick store at 500 West Broad
Street. Henry $. Wallerstein sold this
property, which is Situated at the
| northwest corner of Broad and Gill
mer Streets and which fronts twenty
feet three and ne-half inches. to An
drew ]. Warren. for $4,000.
An interesting sale of farm prop
| erty was made when the well-known
! dairy farm in Henrico County, Chats
worth. was placed on sale under the
hammer under the direction of the
United States District Court The farm
was owned by Harry L. Trowbridge,
who recently filed a petition in bank
ruptcy. II is located on the Osborne
Turnpike about two miles below the
city, and contains 2S5.77 acres and was
formerly owned by the r. B. Chafin
estate. Dairying was carried on eX-
tensively, showing profitable results.
and wide reputation was gained by
the farm. Fritz Sitterding. who rep