The Washington times., 1917-06-09
MANY BIG DEALSN
WORLD OF REALTY
$35O,O0O Dwelling House
Sold During Week.
APARTMENTS CHANGE HANDS
SIX Hundred and Seventeen Lots
Are Transferred.

A dwelling worth f350,0o0, an
apartment house valued between
100000 and S4OO, 900, a @ street busi-
ness house. and several smaller apart
nnents featured the real estate trading
of the frst full week OF June. A to-
tai Of I41 transactions was recorded
and ST. lots and parcels Of real estate
changed owners.
John Hays Hammond became the
owner of the handsome dwelling at
230I KaloramA road. He expects 10
make his home here during the war.
The house, which contains thirty,
I'VE rooms, was built about six years
ago by W. W. Lawrence, a led mag
nate of Pittsburgh. It was occupied
only a few months, the Lswrenees
moving to New York. The building
is surrounded by a plot Of two acres
overlooking Rock Creek Park.
Rutland Courts Sold.
Rutland Courts, at Seventeenth and
Riggs streets northwest was trans
fsrrsd yesterday by Harry wardman
TO WeIIesca p. Allen. The building is
Ave stories high, and contains eighty
nine apartments
The consideration is not made public.
but the annual rental OF the apartments
In estimated at more than $500.
Walter BROMLEY acquired the business
block at lbs o street northwest by pur-
chase from Franklin V. Rillian. Only
a nominal consideration is mentioned.
The Standard Oil Company bought If
teen houses on South Capitol street
southeast The purchase comprised the
entire frontage between L and X streets
Among the apartments figuring In the
weeks transfer are the Beacon. at
Adams NH road and Calvert street. ac-
ouired by William L. Borstleman: the
Lowell. at 1907 and 1892 Fourteenth street
northwest sold TO Frederick R Gibbs (;
the Lester. at 2132 F street northwest,
bought by Matte A Hughes; the Vivian.
l723 and IFS G street northwest. and the
Ashburn. at Thirteenth and Harvard
WardmAn.
Busiest Day Of Week.
Friday vas the busiest day Of the
week, having thirty-two sales to its
credit The half-holidAy Of Saturday
was in second place. with twenty-five
trades. Tuesday and Wednesday were
tied, each reporting twenty-four deals.
There were twenty-one sales recorded
on Monday and fifteen on Thursday.
Most Of The weeks trading was in
the outlying suburbs, where 444 par
cells were conveyed. The northwest
ranked second, with sixty-hve lots,
followed by the near-uTban district
with hfty-four lots. There were
twenty-nine lots sold in the south
east and twelve each in the north
east and southwest
The loan market sustained an in
crease OF more than $500 900 over the
record Of the closing days of May
The exact figures In the loans OF the
FIRST week in June were ss13,6se So
This sum was borrowed on the secur-
itv OF lE5 lots At an average interest
Of 81 per cent
Straight loans prsdominatsd, with
= IT, OF S653.O30.37- The sum of all
the notes given for deferred purchase
money was SI05 .309.26. Building as
socistions advanced to members $685..
$50.
Northeast property attained highest
favor as q basis for loan security, be.
ing pledged for an aggregate of $685.
s4S.32. Land in the northwest was
encountered to the extent OF S2Ss, no.
30, and there was borrowed 500, 4Ts =
81 on county property. Loans on
property in the southeast reached
$1o,55o, and in the southwest 81, 0oI II.