Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-01
BUSINESS AS IT LOOKS
IN REAL ESTATE REALM
Many Buyers for Residences That
Are Ready to Bc Moved Into.
There's Reason.
RATHER BUY THAN BUILD NOW
Farm Lands Near by Richmond
Being Called for by Outsiders.
Englishman Reopcns Scgot citations
Stopped by VIZ.

The continued activity in real estate
circles was confined largely last week
ooWn-homes ALREADY built. Just what
the much -talked.of higher rentals has
to say dsM,ely b" the the T fac Is is
more people are trying to buy resi-
dences than the agents have ever
pie are making offers for tho purchase
of houses they have been renting for
years. and In some cases they are sue.
cccdine in becoming tine owners OF
them.
When the agents are approached by
in1uirers for such property, they al
have nothing on their lists to suit the
would be buyer. try 10 sell a vacant
lot hnm and bIi ndure ths buyer to become
1rllsht there. simply maIterins some,
material and of expert labor.
why SO Many Home Buyers.
There are really more home buyers
on the market tnan Richmond has
hig her-ren talk 1t means. probab bly,.
that people who have heretofore been
last two or three years than ever be-
fore. some of them more than they
eysr s "%e nsls to iona make and thus
now in position to become home
owners.
be turned into the building iine-that
is. II they were not scared off by the
hiah c cost Of building material and
biggest kind of business IN vacant-lot
selling. and the long wished-for build
Ing boom would strike ltichmond with
As i is, the building now is almost
and business es.ablishme snts"' in i9D the
matter OF apartment houses. there is
as 5svn much building as the contrae!or
houses are golng up like magic and
nearly every day in the week. At the
are being torn down and rebuilt or
altered and improved TO SUCH AN ex-
buildings All of this keeps an army
OF trowcl showers and hammer WELD
ers busy in all parts of the city.
Looking for Virginia Farms.
There is noticeably in real estate
contiguous TO Richmond. Many Of
those INQUIRIES come from distance
ns lanes 81 Rvsn aHd,
arc the most sought after. However.
All Of the in1uirers do not specify such
ned with almost any location that is
within ressonable PROMPTLY 70 Rich
venient to other markets
Urgent Inquiry From Afar.
One OF the leading agents has such
inquiries from five different states
and another one read 10 the news
paper man very interesting letter
from an Enslishman in Torquay. Eng
land. This man had correspondence
with the same agency in 1913 and
seemed TO be nesriuG a trade when
wars and rumors Of wars broke up the
parley. The Englishman now resumes
the business where it was left off six
years ago and says he is moro anxious
than ever TO locate In old Virginia on
good farm somewhere between Rich
mond and Charlottesville.
y Kentuckian, who writes to one Of
the agencies. is determined TO have :.
fairly good sized farm on the Upper
James, not too far from Richmond anC.
an lndianaian. fresh from overseas
service. wants small farm within
twenty-five miles OF this city. Other
inquiries might be mentioned. but these
arc sufficient TO show that the eyes Of
outsiders being turned towards
Virginia. and the real estate agents
here are OF the opinion that now is n
good time to import some mighty
desirable new citizcrs