Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-13
REAL ESTATE RECORD
AND COURT CALENDAR
Property Transfers in City During
Past Week Aggregate
100000.
BUIi DING is MORE ACTIVE
Agents Are Busy With Rental Orders,
any Many Sales Agreed Upon Havc
Not YET Gone TO Record-Fire
Loss Is Small.
BUH DING is MORE ACTIVE
The Weeks Record

\ Sigh, inactivity was evidenced
In the sales that developed on the
local real estate market during the
past week, but this is attributed in
the main to the activity of the agents
In the rental business The business
was dull the first days Of the week.
and If II had not been for the bust
ness OF Friday and Saturday the totals
for the week would have decdeascd to
considerable degree as compared
with previous weeks
1t was said along real estate row
Yesterday that the agents had been
rushed during the past few days In
renting houses. At this period OF the
year property Is rented for possession
September j. which Is Richmond's an
nual moving day. Some Of the agents
have been rather fortunate and have
not had very many Of the houses In
their care vacated. while others have
had the usual number. All in all the
numbe" OF houses that will bc vacant
on the first Of September is not any
larger than in other years.
SALES or CITY PROPERTY
AMOUNTED TO 100000
The sales of city property for the
week amounted to nearly 100000,
deeds were n somewhat less total
but aggregated near the same amounts
fenrico County property showed bet
ter results for the week. and tho deeds
of bargain and sale ran around the
$4,000 mark
Building operations were as good as
for the average week, while the fire
losses amounted To only $50.
The largest sale of the week devel-
ored Yesterday, engineered by Vaughan
Whitehurst. and resulted in Ellen
j. Dance and husband selling to W.
Ter County. tho property at the
northeast corner of Park and Davis
Avenues This LOT fronts GoxI4c feet.
and. while the consideration was only
$40. valuation Of $4,000 was placed
on the property. according to the tax
paid. Other notable sales OF the week
were: NJ. d. Florsheim and wife to
Ada d. Moore, seventy-fvc feet ut the
southwest corner of Cary Street and
the Boulevard for $500; Madge +. Mat
tcosSan to Louis r. Hatke. forty-six
feet three inches on the south side of
Alonument Avenue, opposite the Lee
circle, for SG.0l2.5o Benjamin c. Jones
10 II c. Jones. tho property ut COS
Hawthorne Avenue. and tract of
twenty and three -fourths acres I'm Hen
church. for $4,000. y. s Buford sold
10 ;. i. Cowardin fraction more than
Gtecn acres on the Southern Railway.
near Fulton. for $1,000
HANDSOME NEW STORE
10 GO UP on BROAD STREET
handsome new brick store will
soon be erected on West Broad Street
ina; vii! cost approximately s2a,5O0.
me plans for the building, which will
DC located on the 400 block, West
hroad Street. and will be four stories
AMI a basement. are now being drawn
DN Marcus iiallctt. Bcrta ". Smith
hicd plans with the Building Depart
men' during the week for a two-storv
oFlck apartment house at $500 Monu
ment Avenue tina; will cost s2O.1oO.
The Richmond Forgings Corporation.
winch Is engaged in manufactured
shrapnel tor several OF the warning
nations OF Europe, Will build So.
100 addition To It's plant near the State
fair Grounds, n the shape Of a new
BRASS foundry. which viii be used In
connection with ihe making OF am
nunition.
w. c. Carpenter will build a two
stoE! frame succeed dwelling on the
west side Of Ft.st .Avfnue, between
Front and BurMs S--ccts. on the Norm
side that viii cost s6.r0o \ ,wo-story
orick dwelling VIII be erected on Inc
east side Of Third Avenue, between
-"San and Victor Streets, by \. g
lHa!!cs at cost OF $1,000