The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
REALTY DEALERS
 SNAIL HOI|SE PLAN
 BECOMING POPULAR
In Several Parts of City Diminutive Cottages Are Tn Course of COnstruc-
 tiOn-GOOd Sales

Numerous requests have been received by the Estes Real Estate Company for information about their proposed plan of erecting a number of small homes on lots in Beverly Place, one of the pretty manufacturing suburbs of Birmingham. Many of the requests come from people who could well afford better residences, but who are attracted by the simplicity or the idea.
 Claude Estes, who is fostering the plan, is rushing the work on a sample house which he expects to be able to exhibit by the end of the week The house will consist of three rooms and a small porch. constructed so that later additions or remodeling may be made easily.
 Several deals were made during the week in business property and farms, but, the large majority of sales were of residences in the suburbs.
 The Butler-Garrett Real Estate and Insurance Company report the sale of an S00-acre farm in Saint Clair county to Dr. E. T. Hickey, a resident of Bir- mingham. Other sales made during the week were a residence in Inglenook, from w. w. Massey to J. W. Jones for the sum of $3,0O0; residence in Fountain Heights for s7,OO0; residence on Fifteenth avenue, south, to B. W. Tate for $6,75O; residence on St. Charles avenue to R. .. Adcock, S6, 800: residence at col Princeton avenue to c. B. McManus, s6,000; resi- dence in Woodlawn from E. H. Smith to M, A. Pauley, $4,750.
 An interesting feature of real estate activity during the past week was the sale of several large tracts of timber land by the William l.. White Company for -turpentine purposes.
 TEese tracts, several thousand acres each, are situated in all parts of the state. In most cases the sales were oi the land but in a few instances the turpentine rights only were involved.
 Among the sales of the Jemison Real Estate and Insurance Company during the sweelk was a building located at 19E Second avenue. at present occupied by the Fit-Rite Shoe Company. The deal was made for H. U. Sims to John T Sanfor of Columbus, Miss, for the sum of s125,000. The building is three-story structure extending for twenty-five feet along the north side of Second avenue and reaching back 140 feet to an alley in the middle of the block. The plans of the present owner are not known but nothing will be done during the life of the lease of the present occupants which still has some time to run.
 Another important sale made during the week was that of the old Brown residence on Sixth avenue, for years one of the well-known residence buildings in Birmingham. The sale was made fol Mrs w. S. Brown to Mrs Mary F. Mcclure. The price involved was around s25, ,0o0. The property Is situated or Sixth avenue between Twenty-first anc Twenty-second streets.
 Other sales reported were: Dr. Scale Harris to Mrs. Anne G. McGavock, resi- dence on Maplewood street for s11.75o J. c. Abbott to James T. Rider, resi- dence at Avondale for s4,0O0, and Ida s Williams to Nora A. Quain, residence 1925 South Fifteenth street, for $6,OO0.
 At the office of the Birmingham Realty Company it was stated that several oI the simplicity houses planned by tha company were under construction II Norwood, and that in the immediate flu ture the public will be able to fully realize how the plan works out.
 The houses are placed in the rear o the lot and have four rooms, two bed rooms, a living room and a kitchenett' and bath. closet or so for clothes has been added.
 The company has closed contracts witi number of persons for sale of hous and lot on this plan, and indication point to quite a lot of such building Several of the houses are also planned for Chestnut Hill
 They are all to be in best residence locations. The houses now being bull are expected to be occupied pending tn ability of the owner to erect his perma nent home, after which these quarter will become garage and servant house
 J. w. Brazeal of the Smith, Throck morton, Schultz Realty Company wen to Demopolis this week and closed deal on $40 acres of land, being par of the Vert Little cattle farm, Franl Means of this city being the purchaser This land is what is known as alfalf' land, and valued at from $35 to $75 pc acre. MT. Means>contemplates makin' a hay and cattle proposition out of it MT. Brazeal says land values are in creasing very fast in this section, ant that he has several large tracts or ryhfch deals are bending,