The Washington times., 1916-09-23
SUBURBAN SALES
LEAD ON AN ACTIVE
REALTY MARKET
Trading for Third Week IN Sep
tember Exceeded That Of
Previous Two Weeks.
SEVERAL BIG DEALS MADE
Loan Market Shows Slight Drop
Over Previous Week-Coun-
ty Property Pledged.
SEVERAL BIG DEALS MADE

Realty trading In the third week Of
September displayed q decided In
crease In volume over the activity OF
the preceding week. During the past
six days the brokers closed 1s4 trans
actions In which were involved sSl
lots and parcels of real estate.
The weeks trading was rather even
distributed. Tuesday was the BAN
ner day with q total OF thirty-two
sales. Friday ranked second with thir-
ty-one deals. followed closely by Mon
ty-nine trades. There were twenty
eight sales reported Thursday and
fifteen on the half-holiday of satur-
Mrs. Henrietta M. Halliday and the
Columbia Properties Company. were
the largest investors in Washington
real estate this week. The former
purchased the Champlain apartment
house at 1928 * street northwest.
pany for a consideration in excess OF
900. She in turn conveyed to the
Columbia Properties Company the
Department. Of Justice building at
premises. 61I Twelfth street north
west. The former was sold at figure
over s135, 200. while the purchase price
OF the latter was not stated.
Suburban Sales Lead.
The outlying suburbs led the mar
ket this week with total Of seventy
five parcels changing owners. The
northwest section was in second place
with sixty-two lots transferred fol-
lowed by the near-urban district
where forty-eight lots were sold.
There were twenty-five lots conveyed
In the northeast, thirty-one In the
southeast and thirteen In the south
west.
Katherine G. Hope conveyed her hold
ings in a part of Mt. Pleasant to Thoni-
as III. Yeager. The price OF the property
was not stated, but a purchase money
trust OF $4,000 was recorded with the
deed. For a consideration of about
10000. Rufus Hardy conveyed to VIII
liam b. Mason the premises 14l4 six-
teenth street northwest.
The Oswego Apartments. at 1928 U
street northwest was acquired this week
by the United States Savings Bank from
Emily 8. w. Lipplncott. The price was
not stated. The United States Savings
Bank conveyed premises 2113 street
northwest and property lying In Sixth
street between l. and NJ streets north
west as part payment. George w. and
Elisabeth THOMAS conveyed premises
2146 p street northwest to Jessie Blatch-
er. The consideration Is not stated John
D. and l., Dora Burkholder acquired the
Kent Apartment, In North Carolina ave-
nue.; between First and Second streets
purchase price Is not known.
Titles Transferred.
John Berling as trustee conveyed an
undivided one-fifth interest in property
on F street between Ninth and Tenth.
Fifth street northwest between q and II
| streets, and 114l Seventh street north
| west, to NJ. Eleanora Bergling, and an
other one-fifth interest In the same prop
erty to Elizabeth A. May. The consid-
GRAFTON In each instance was d7 $50
Helene Sterne acquired the premises 63l
Louisiana avenue northwest from Max
z. Sterne. The price was not stated.
The loan market displayed a slight
drop this week over tho record OF the
preceding week. The exact figures IN
loans for the past week were $4S3, ,357. 81
This sum was borrowed on the security
Of ls6 lots at an average interest rate
Of ,5.S per cent
The bulk of the week'a loans was OF
the 'straight variety, which totalet
$30S-Fu. SO. The sum of all the notes
given for deferred purchase money was
| $l07. .606.SS. The building associations
advanced tn members $1,000
County property was the most fav.
ored as basis of loan securiety, be.
ing pledged for an appreciate OF Soe,.
SSSH. Land In the northwest was en-
numbered to the extent OF $S7,545. Tn,
record OF loans In the other city sec
tions was: Northeast. s55.S 800: southeast
| $2I,96I19, and southwest &9 l6O 81