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Hloal Estate ISuilcliiig PART ONE SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1943 11 Uptaoi In Local state Prices Parallels National Tren HOUSING BALANCE Home Building Drops, hut Conversions Gain Charming Brick Colonial House Sold Investment Burnson Gets Deed to Idea! Home 5 COL. HENRY II. BCRDICK Real 1 4 Demand Is Reported 4 --rV IT f. ft i L. Free I'res Keal Estate Editor AVHILK NEW IIOMK CONSTRUCTION" gradually is dwindling, Activity in the conversion of residential and commercial structures to provide aditional living quarters for war workers grows apace.

In his February report Commissioner Joseph P. Wolff, of the Detroit Department of Buildings and Safety Engineering, lists 4 ft temporary housing permits issued for the duration of the rational emergency. Eleven of these are for alterations to single end two-family houses providing rooming accomodations for 45 persons. Forty families will have homes in 38 former stores, for conversion of which temporary permits were issued last month. A significant feature of the Commissioner's February report is the of seven temporary permits for con-ersion of dwellings into nurseries which will take care of 35 children.

This will make possible the employment in war industries ot mothers who, because of lack of such facilities for their children, heretofore hae been precluded from making their contribution to the war effort. -Ai I I i If if 6 Uiit I 1 i 11 Alvie C. Burnson, who was awarded the 1943 Detroit Builder Show Ideal Home, Thursday was presented his deed to the home by Ernest O. Knight, president of the Builders Show. Burnson (left), his mother, Mrs.

Mcllie E. Lennox, and Knight are shown at the doorway of the bungalow style house located at 15324 Evergreen. Burnson took possession of the home and moved in with his father and mother last week. Although he has already received numerous offers to purchase the Ideal Home for cash, he decided to live in it himself. War Homes Speedup to Be Urged by Builders The sale of this charming brick Colonial home at 18474 Washburn to Leo Katz was consu- mated by E.

H. Garrels, of Klipfel West Side Realtor firm. The price was not given. Adjustment of present housing Typical Eastwood Gardens Home Papular permits were issued last month for 193 single houses find 10 two-family dwellings the estimated cost of which is This compares with 705 single houses and 53 two-family dwelling permits issued in the like month a year ago at an estimated cost of -S3, 725, 160. A total of 240 families will be accommodated upon completion of residential buildings for which permits were issued in February.

In the like month last year, S53 family units were provided and 258 in January this year. MARTIN A. LARSON will head the newly organized Inner Boulevard Taxpayers' Association which starts off with 400 harter members. His election was announced last week along with the following officers: Aaron Kurland, vice president; Mrs. Wetzel, treasurer, and Mrs.

Mittie Dunmire, secretary. The board of direc-" tors comprises William Brand, Albert Dietrich, Joseph Temrowski, Glen i Stewart, F. Hunter, Harold Huetter, n-v- Alfred Cole, Chester J. Brown and Frank T. McGlinnen.

icaiiiLuuiis win ue uy members of the Emergency Committee of the National Association of Home Builders with Government officials at a special meeting in Washington, March 15 and 16. it was announced Saturday by Committee Chairman Robert Ger-holz, of Flint. The conference will consider the necessity of an early distribution 4 Apartments Advance 25 Small Farm Price Rise Predicted; Factory Sales Up Following a decade of falling prices, the turn appears to have come in the real estate field in the Detroit area. In this respect the local market parallels the national trend. The price level is stabilized in some categories and an uptrend is clearly indicated in others, realtors said last week at a meeting of the Brokers Division of the Detroit Real Estate Board.

In a round table discussion, members of the division cited specific sales to demonstrate the trends. Jerry C. Hayes, of the Hayes Realty apartment specialist, indicated that prices of apartment buildings had advanced about 25 per cent during the last two years. Money is seeking investment in this class of property, fce stated. Values of store properties have shifted from the older sections to the so-called "hot spots," it was pointed out by George Sexauer, of Homer Warren Co.

Decreased demand for stores in the in-between areas and consequent lessening of rental values have been largely offset by increasing trade in the newer sections, where modern stores are at a premium, he said. During the 25 years he has been selling small farms and suburban properties, Clarence J. Boldt stated that he had never known prices of the class of property to be so low as at the present time. There is an increasing demand for small farms, he said, and prices are stiffening. He predicted a substantial price advance in the next 90 days.

Boldt reported the sale, since the first of the year, of 11 small farms and 42 city lots, for a total consideration of $41,605. Lester J. Steele, of Reaume Silloway, reported an improved market for industrial properties, after a three-month quiet period. He attributed the upswing to renewal of war contracts, which has given manufacturers greater confidence. One-story buildings are in particular demand, he said, but there is little demand for multi-storied buildings, which as a rule are not adapted for modern manufacturing methods.

Many factory buildings, ready for immediate use, Steele stated, have been sold above reproduction costs. Zoning, he pointed out, has been an important influence in creating this demand. W. W. Tanney, of the First National Bank-Receiver, who was in charge of the discussion, cited an old forging plant which had been sold at a low price and completely rehabilitated, representing an investment of $125,000, but which now was valued at over $200,000 as a going property.

L. A. Ewald, division chairman, presided. The program was arranged by Philip C- Baker, of J. Lee Baker Co.

The principal objectives of the organization are to foster clean, honest, economical and efficient government; to of the priority quota and the administration will be urged to relax the present requirments that housing can only be sold after four month's occupancy, he said. Speaking of priorities, Gerholz stated that NHA Administrator Blandford announced in January that 170,000 new starts in housing projects were to be allocated this year, in addition to those then underway. "If this Is not done immediately," he said, "the housing situation by the end of this year will be far more desperate than at the end of 1942. From the time a priority is given until the completion of th project, nine months elapse. This means that there must be no further delay in distributing the precious priorities for which tha private builders in every crowded city are eagerly waiting.

"The four months occupancy restriction, before a war worker may purchase a home, has long been a topic of contention by private builders. Under that they have nt protection against war workers occupying new homes, leaving in a couple of months, causing needed repairs or redecorating. To adjust this, allowing workers to purchase without the probationary rental period, is not inflationary." 1 1 develop intelligent, widespread and arti- 'A Ay I cuiate public opinion concerning prob-I lems created by taxation and the owner Contest Slated for Postwar Windows Two thousand dollars In cash prizes for the best designs for postwar windows for hospital buildings and for small houses is being offered by Detroit Steel Products Co. in nationwide architectural competitions announced Saturday for-architects, engineers, designers, draftsmen and students. This firm, now engaged in war production, is in peacetime the manufacturer of steel casement windows.

Judges in the contest, all registered architects, have been selected from localities near Detroit to conserve wartime transportation facilities. They will meet here about April 10. They are: Edward G. Conrad, of Cleveland; Robert B. Frantz, of Frantz Spence, Saginaw; Branson V.

Camber, of Derrick Gamber, Detroit; John N. Richards, of Mills, Rhiens, Bellman Nordoff, Toledo; Ame-deo Leone, of Smith, Hinchman Grylls, Detroit; and Alfred Shaw, of Shaw, Naess Murphy, Chicago. R. W. Weed, Eastern sales manager for Detroit Steel Products will represent the sponsor.

C. William Palmer, of the American Institute of Architects, president of the Michigan Brokers to Hear Talk on Titles Members of the Broker's Division of the Detroit Real Estate Board will hear a talk on titles at their weekly luncheon meeting Wednesday in the Savoyard Club. The speaker will be John J. Pole-ski, superintendent of the Wayne County Tract Index Department. Philip C.

Baker, program chairman, announced Saturday that Hugh Sheehan, of the Michigan Consolidated Gas also will speak briefly for the Office of Civilian Defense on the Michigan State Troops. ship of property; to urge legislation and city ordinances essential to taxpayers of LARSON the community with regard to property ripsessments, zoning, tax budgets, building, health, administration of rent control and the rights of property owners in the courts. Temporary headquarters of the Association have been established at 735 E. Grand Boulevard. This income type home at 21040 Beechwood, near the junction of E.

Eight Mile and Gratiot, is typical of the 100 new houses in Eastwood Gardens. It has just been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hamilton by Irwin, Kight Hines, Inc. NHA Clarifies Its Policy on Private Building Suggestions Given for Repainting Painted surfaces that are simply chalky require only dusting or brushing before application of fresh paint.

However, all paint that has started to scale or peel should be removed by scraping or brushing with a wire brush, and all Procedures clarifying the ap-t 2 Where a builder holding an preference rating or "STANDARD COTTON" The First Real Improvement In HOME INSULATION For Full Information Call WARREN FIBRE PRODUCTS 1040 W. BALTIMORE TR. 1-4030 plication or material conservation outstanding der approved prior to that date RECOGNITION' RY CONGRESS of faulty administration of rent control, continues in evidence, according to Herbert L. Nelson, executive vice president of the National Association of Real Estate Hoards. He cites the effort toward localization of authority embraced in a bill now before the House Ranking and Currency Committee, which would have OTA proide for "exercise of full administrative authority by regional and local area officials in determining applications, petitions and protests" relating to rents or regulations.

Provision is made for appealing decisions to Federal courts and evictions would revert to former State court procedure. Nelson points out that unmentioned by measure was the 90-day, one-third down hurdle. A. D. MaeRap, M.A.I., member of the Detroit Real Estate Board and of Michigan Chapter No.

10 of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, has been appointed vice chairman for faociety or Architects, is serving as loose putty should be removed from requests rerating or extension of that order or applies for authentication of a purchase order, conformity with the above provisions also will be required except where the builder has started substantial work on the project prior to Feb. 27 and can establish to the satisfaction of the FHA that conformity is not practical. If the builder had started substantial work on his project after Feb. 27, conformity with the revised critical requirements to privately iiuanceu war housing have been established by the National Housing Agency, Administrator John B. Blandford, announced Saturday.

These procedures implement the joint policy declaration of the War Production Board and the NHA requiring that the use of critical materials conform with the official War Housing Construction Standards and War Housing Critical List, and that local housing construction quotas found by the NHA to be in excess of needs be revised or cancelled wherever practicable. PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS The highlights of the NHA's nail holes, joints and cracks, and fresh putty or crack filler put in after the first coat of the new paint has dried. Iit the case of badly cracked or peeled paint, where some of it remains strongly adhesive, and would leave an uneven surface for repainting, it may be taken off with the aid of a prepared paint remover. professional adviser. Approved by the Committee on Competitions of the American Institute of Architects, the contests offer prizes in two groups as follows: Hospital window design: First prize, $500; second prize, $300; four mentions, $50 each.

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2-5353 list and construction standards may also be waived by the FHA if it finds that undue hardship ANCIENT PAINT PIGMENT Pliny, writing at the beginning of the Christian Era, tells of the manufacture of white lead from metallis lead with the aid of vinegar, as the corroding' agent. regulations include the following: 1 The provisions of the revised would be caused because of special circumstances involved in the particular case. 3 These same principles of practical conformity and relief from undue hardship will be applied in the event that subsequent amendments are made to the War the Central Northern ot a special committee of the Institute, the objective of which is to encourage better knowledge of accepted appraisal practices among real estate investors, institutional and Government executives, through wider reading of the Appraisal Journal, published quarterly by the Institute. "The Appraisal Journal," MacRae told me, "is without doubt the best and greatest assembly of data and of expression of experience and opinion of analysis and appraisal of real estate to be found cn where in the world." Copies of the Journal in the library of the Detroit War Housing Critical List and the War Housing Construction Standards will apply without qualification to private projects where the application for priority assistance 100 NEW FHA MODELS- IN EASTWOOD GARDENS Housing Critical List and War is acted upon favorably by the Federal Housing Administration after Feb. 27, 1943.

tow area; 1st strert left, 2 blocks north of Eirht Mile Rd. on Gratint. City convenience with suburban advantage. MACRAE WMC Director to Address Realtor Meet Montague A. Clark, district director of the War Manpower Commission, will be the featured speaker at a dinner meeting of the Detroit Real Estate Board, March 16 at 6:30 p.m.

in the Wayne Room of Hotel Statler, it was announced Saturday by Board President Arthur F. Bassett. Discussion of pending legislation affectinng real estate will be headed by Donald D. James, chairman of the board's legislative committee. Results of a conference with OPA officials in Washington, at which changes in rent control restrictions will be sought, will be reported by Bassett.

Real Estate Board are available to Board members, he said. He Why Rent? OWN Your Own Home $300 iwh'S Pin Mfirtcaqe Cost an and Prepaid Items. Servicemen's Chain Letter Plan Started In announcing that three more of its employees have joined the armed forces. Homer Warren Detroit Realtor firm, stated Saturday it has inaugurated a monthly office chain letter plan which will send mail regularly containing individualized messages to all Homer Warren men in the service. The men who joined the armed forces are: John Hoben and Clark Colton, assigned to the Air Corp, and Edwin S.

Englebert, of the Homer Warren Insurance Agency, who has been commissioned a lieutenant (j. in the United States Naval Reserve. The chain letter plan consists of appointing one person in the office to prepare mail respectively for each of the men in the armed forces. That person assumes the responsibility of sending a letter to the particular man each month, each letter containing a few lines from every member of the organization who was personally acquainted with the man. i Goitrous lit Ineom type aftie homes.

2 eearooms, me Teamrw. painted stalls, tall kasa I merit. Some art ready to rove in. Se the Jtodax. Housing Construction Standards.

REVISION OF QUOTAS 4 If changed conditions necessitate downward revision in the established private construction quota for any critical housing area, the revision will be met first through withdrawal of the unissued quota for the area or through recapture of outstanding preference rating orders which will not be used because of the changed conditions. To meet any further revision, the FHA will recommend to the WPB the recapture of outstanding preference rating only if the builder has performed no substantial work on the project. Even if no work has been performed, the FHA, with the concurrence of the NHA's regional representative, may refrain from recommending recapture if it is determined that such action would result in undue hardship. 5 Recapture of outstanding preference rating orders under these circumstances will be considered generally in reverse chronological order, i. orders bearing the latest date of issuance will be considered for recapture first.

IRWIN. KIGHT HINES, INC. Scheifle to Discuss Posticar Planning The second of the series of lectures on postwar planning, sponsored by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, will be given Tuesday at 8:30 p. m. in the small auditorium of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

A. C. Scheifle, executive secretary of the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority, will discuss plans for recreational and highway development in the Detroit district. He will show colored motion pictures of what has been done in the New York Metropolitan area by a similar agency. STRAINING PAINT After thorough stirring, paint or enamel should be strained through cheesecloth or an old silk stocking to make sure of its freedom from any undissolved particles, if a flawless finish is essential for the painting job.

MODELS OPEN 10 A. M. (o 1 P.M. rincree 54 1 5 21101 GRATIOT offered to furnish information regarding the Journal at his offices in the Majestic Building. TIIKHi; IS A DEFINITE TREND on the part of small investors those who have from $1,500 to 2,500 spare money after taking care of their home budgets, taxes and the purchase of war bonds to use it as a down payment in the purchase of two, three and four-flat properties which have a fair rental income, commented Howard II.

Robinson, general sales manager of Seldon Johnson, Detroit Realtor firm, when I called on him last week. Small apartment buildings also are in great demand, he said, but there are not many available for sale. Robinson told me that his firm had consumated 84 sales in January and February, involving a total of $786,400. Included were an apartment which sold for $60,000, five industrial buildings totaling $145,500, one store proporty for $17,500, and the balance single houses, two, three and four-family dwellings. "This volume," he said, "shows considerable real estate activity, particularly in view of the unusual cold and stormy weather during this period, but more particularly in view of the OPA regulations compelling a third down payment in the sale of renter-occupied homes where the new owner desires to occupy the premises." Summing up the situation, Robinson stated that in his opinion real estate activity for the balance of the year would increase.

THE MANAGEMENT COMPANY rather than the building owner is made responsible for enforcement of the wage stabilization order under a ruling of the War Labor Board in a Washington case. 40 Home Permits Issued in Dearborn Building permits for 14 new homes issued last month in Dearborn raises the total since the first of the year to 40 at an estimated cost of $149,100, it was announced Saturday by Director Clarence A. Doyle, of the Department of Public Works. INDUSTRIAL SITES PERE MARQUETTE R.R. FRONTAGE I BREAKFAST AMD DINETTE SUITES I I 5CHOOLCRAFT HoWV.

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