Evening star., 1940-11-09
SHOP T AK
News About Builders
and ReoI Estate
Personalities

More new houses we're sold IN tne
District during October than II
any month in the last II years. ac'
cording to figures compiled by RUFUS
S. Lusk. This will be news to real
estate brokers and home builders
many of whom declared that pre-
election quiet held the real estate
market in its grasp.
A total of 249 new homes changeu
hands during october in the capital
BY far the greater portion OF these
were so-called loW-cost homes. inns
compares with 22l homes sold last
October. So far this year 1913 new
houses have been sold, compared to
1855 for the II months OF 1889;
1902 in 1888 and 1881 in 1887. 1t
looks like business is good!
incidentally, Mr.. Lusk is attend
ing the convention of the United
States Savings and Loan League,
which will be held next week in CHI
cago. He will present an illustrated
lecture on Uncle Sam-Real Estate
Operator"
Add to the list of those from
Washington attending the conven-
ton of the National Association OF
Real Estate Boards the names Of Mr..
and Mrs. J. HaWley Smith and Mr..
and Mrs. Fred L. Chapman. Mr..
Chapman is with the F. H. A, There
will be about so WashingtonianS at
the convention. which opens in Phil
sdelphia's Bellevue-S -Stratford Hotel
next Wednesday. The Washington
delegation will leave at o'clock
Tuesday afternoon via the Penusyl-
vania Railroad. They will occupy a
special car,
Five hundred employees of the
Morris CafritZ real estate organiza-
ton will attend an oyster roast this
afternoon at GreenWay, the new
s3.OOOOOO loW-cost housing project
now under construction on Mime
sofa avenue Sc.
The affair, staged by Mr.. Cafritz,
will be a get-together of employees
from the Greenway project and the
Meigs street project in Northeast
Washington. This last, consisting of
u houses Of four apartments each,
was started late last month.
Many Of the Cafritz Office force
also will attend the roast, which
starts at noon. Guests will be
greeted by Mr.. CafritZ, his general
manager. Ralph Hisle, and Russell
Conn, manager Of the Ambassador
Hotel.
Quite sales record has been eS-
tahllShed at Hampshire Knobs. the
low-cost homes development on New
Hampshire avenue in Maryland,
half mile past the District line. A
total of 90 homes have been sold in
the Smith 81 Gottlieb development
so far this fall. Altogether 12l
houses are being built in the section,
but sales are running far ahead of
Albert H. Davis is in
charge Of sales. Development of
Knobs is a big reason
why a new bus line is being inaugu-
rated to serve the area.
Two furnished display homes are
being opened in Sligo Park Hills.
Silver Spring, Md, today. The
houses are In different price classes.
by Waple e. James. Inc,
realtors, the new Colonial residences
are part of the 78-house development
being built on the wooded hillsides
that adjoin Sligo Park.
During the last week the District
Real Estate Commission issued
licenses as real estate statesmen to
c. Moss, 2l25 Rhode Island
avenue NE; H Martin Yost, 1881
L street NV; Estes Brand. 1417 L
street NV, and Katharine S. De
Lashmutt, 1719 K street NV.
A real estate brokers' license was
issued to Jack Coppersmith, Wood
ward Building.
Applications for real estate brok-
srs' licenses were received from Mat
-hews & Berrian, 1911 K street NV:
Burnita Shelton Matthews, 1911 K
street NV, and Laura NJ. Berrien,
1911 K street NV.
Applications for real estate sales
mems licenses were received from
Robert E. Goldsten, 1919 K street
NV; Joseph Tishler, 2539 Pennsyl-
vania avenue Sc; Baldo j. Balducci, |
1869 Park road NV, and Herman
G. Armstrong, 1906 K street NV.