The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-28
REAL ESTATE IN CITY
AND NEAR IS ACTIVE
Number of Sales larger During Last
Week, Though Average amounts
Run Somewhat smaller.
NEARLY 5000, 900 RECORDED
Building Operations Grow in Volume,
Many New Structures Recently
Authorized. Being Under Way.
Inquiry Is brisk.

inquiry Is brisk.
Though the sales on the Richmond
real estate market during the last
week or ten days have not been OF
many of the larger or higher prceI
properties. dealing has been brtsi,.
ana a mum Der of smaller pronor-fex
nave been transferred The rnarket
Is active, Inquiry large and demand
Tor city ana suburban honesites .s
I strong. Real estate men are ex-
pressing their satisfaction over tha
conditions now prevailing and the
outlook FOR 81 much buster season
than this city has seen In a num-
Der OF years.
| The business now going On Is sub.
stautial and comparatively little Of
/ mo property being taken Is for
speculation. Most of the buys are in
the nature OF investments. either on
/ the part Of those who are securing
dwellings TO be rented reasonably or
| who are providing homes for them
selves.
i Small Trading Features.
| Throughout the entire week small
trading mas featured the business
and the demand for various kinds of
/ IA RFEAA ~ tFtaA ia tldSSeu As Sfnall ana
medium sized, has held up and will
+ run into 'he coming weeks. Inqui-
RES are &C ming from many quarters
{ and much improved tone is felt in
/ the market. Not only is Richmond
north Of the James experiencing
more activity. but the activity Is ex-
tending and being felt in Henrico and
+ on the Southslde.
/ There have been during the las.
week, however. some sizeable sales
and there ere chickering's going on in
certain quarters that are expected to
develop larger transfers during tho
next week or two. The total vol
une of the sales brought to light
/ by their being presented for record
| in the several local courts is In tho
neighborhood OF 100000
Building activities. too continue to
run larger and a number of the per-
nits granted by the Building Inspeo-
tor during the last week were for
! residences Of considerable size and
value. Plans for large school
building Beinbrtdge. are now on file
In the Building Inspectors office.
i Building Operations Going On.
cambridge School. situate on
Bainbridge Street. between Fifteenth
Street and Cowardin Avenue. which
will cost 100000. has already been
begun The contractor who secured
the fob, A. VI. Walkup & Co, has
already begun the foundation work
for the building. The structure will
be n handsome one and valuable
addition 10 Richmond's public school
system.
| Among the larger buildings author
Lied during the week is the residence
TO be built by r. L. Gordon IN Will
| HAN 4yrI
of about 10000. The building will
be OF brick and will go to "a height
OF two and a half stories.
| To hu'll a two-story dwelling
brick tenement on the west eide OF
Addison Street, between Floyd and
i Grove Avenues, permit has been is~
sued 10 II. +. Delaney and C. G..
Morris,
Building operations are looking up
with the arrival OF more seasonablc
weather. ana an unusually good sum-
mer and fall is looked forward to
by builders and contractors
Among Larger Deals.
Among the more notable OF tbs
realty transactions put through dur
ing the week are those OF e. r.
/ Poindexter to Cardoza s. Hubbard,
incorporated. involving s1s,s0o. ana
OF Herbert II. Richardson to Alya
! w Maynard, In which the considera-
ton was $4,000. Poindexter sold TO
Cardoza d Hubbard 1850 feet on the
north side OF Broad Street, near the
Boulevard. The property bought by
Maynard from Richardson Is No.
1909 East Franklin Street
Davis Brothers sold TO w. B Wing
field nineteen feet eleven inches,
fronting on the west side Of Null
berry Street, near Grove Avenue, for
$4,000 Albert F. Neumann sold 70
Lena and Florence Duke a lot 'front.'
Ing thirty-seven feet On r Street,
west OF Twenty-fourth Street for
! ssieea.= .hese properties Aars
improvements.
In Bankruptcy Case.
In the bankruptcy proceedings OF
George j. Bialkowski and subject to
! the approval of the United States
/ District Court. J. Thompson Brown
& Co sold planning mill and real
estate on Fifth Avenue, Highland
Park. last week for <4.25o.
! A number OF farm sales have re-
Gently been negotiated. demand hay-
ing shown Improvement for small
farms. There are more people look
ing for farm lands as planting time
approaches.
Loans are being made by many OF
the real estate dealers. who say de-
rnand is better and money somewhah
freer than II has been for some time.