Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS
INCREASES DURING WEEK
Building Operations Also Show I'M
provcment I'm Richmond and Auc-
ton Sales Arc Numerous.
CHURCH EDrFICEs ARE GOING U.
Numerous EnIargcments OF Manu-
featuring and Business Plants.
More Apartment Houses Are un-
der Way-Othcrs Planned.

The real estate business cxnorion.oa
SO nm, Of flourish las, week. or.
was decided pickup. There deveIoned
very healthy demand for all kinds
o. propTSr,E. especially business prop
curry for what may be termed w,rn
house and joDbinE business pron"rtv
it,, ,raekase facilities. which looks
Greater Richmond "
Inc inquiry for residences is stju
nrEeh'. There are residences for sale
vn me T asents lists. but practically
residences on which there arc leases
!st uneNp'red. and il so happens thai
me me urgent inquircrs for residential
property arc people who want III,
houses Tor their own immediate use.
Auction SaicS Become Interesting.
ne number Of auction sales has bcen
noticcabiN increased. Within tho pasi
NO weeks good deal of property has
changed hands by the auction method
ana II IS noticea BILE that tho auct ION
SIieS iately nave been attracting more
olh"ers man was the case few weeks
ago. and there has been no such thing
OF Iatc as taking in" property when IL
was offered under the eloquence Of ,no
auciioneer. Quite number OF very
nounced for this week. as one may
,enoiIy see by g!ancing at the adrcr-
,ns columns in the real estate sec
llon OF TINS mornings paper.
building Operations on Jncrcnsc.
Notwiihstanding the high cost Of
nuitdinf material and the high cost OF
labor, building operations are on the
Increase u in and around Richmond
addition TO the American Tobacco Com
nany lear department on Twcnty-iif;h
street; between Main and Cary. az is
also the work of the export Leaf To-
bacco Comnany's plant at Lombardv
and Leigh Streets.
Tho splendid building of tho Sno,-
less E Comnany going IN at Eleventh and
stage. and the Southern stove Works
on the south Side. are getting under
way with their new and extensive
the G. +. Sauer Co.'S navorinc extract
plant at Meadow and Broad is about
starting eff. and a big building enter
prise II is. inasmuch rs il will double
'hc size ana capacity of the plant
Much Church building Going On.
There is considerable church build
lnE going on and more contemplated
ne trace Covenant Presbyterian con
on it's fine house of worship on
Monument Avenue. and work is pro-
eressing on the new Methodist church
on the Boulevard An addition is no
ing made to calvary Baptis; Church AT
the Boulevard and Grove Avenue and
~ least two other churches Of tho
iarS"d and otheIJise improved
Centenary Methodist Eniscon,I
church recently acquired the Johnson
prnperty on Grace Street adjoining the
;hurch property for the purpose OF en-
lirsinH the church cdincc ana il is
Understood that this CONGREGATION is
.,n"ht ready TO commence the work
ScNeral churches Of co!orcd people arc
being enlarged. and two new. ones arc
under construction.
Residence building Doom I. Wanted.
Not less than a half dozen aD4rt
nent houses are going un and rlans
LOT az ie.tst TWO others are now before
inc building inspector for apuroval I,
is understood that several other anar,
neht houses OF one size ana another
are hcinS considered by builders and b