Show Housing Demands Still Chief Business Of f Real Estate Men f G Ting Population Is Causing Advance in Properties Considerable Building Will ill Be Contracted For v Offices Are at Premium By Percy M. M Cropper continues to bo one of the chief sources of inquiry in the thc H U J real estate business the demand for small homes continues to grow roW n iri n way that is pushing prices up 11 in in man many parts or of the tho city There are arc ro a of conditions that are arc contributing to this lack of housing acom- acom and find it ills is probable that it will be bc long long- longin in m the summer before there The readjustment of the railroad situation is bringing bringing- a change is number any ny of men back hack to Salt Lake the return of many who were engaged fn work in various arious parts of the country and the steady accumulation in war woi in with the tho h cessation of building throughout the tuc war population ned prices prices of materIal and labor that have hv a lcd has the high period and 1 I f caused a l ini-g ini uL iu b understood win Announcements s It H Ls Is ot of ten days das bo lie mado ade within the tho next nott that will be contract contracted con con- building consi considerable this It is said saLtI of tract ell for tor Much uch district Just will b be In tho the downtown become more moro settle settled set act soon oon as 32 conditions ns number of or buildIngs buildings build build- ul d- d tle it it t is said salti that a ings and improvements will bo lie started in the downtown downton n district 0 According to work ork that is 11 contemplated of or orn be a great deal plated there will South street as asfar First n activity along alons East street and also r far r cast as Third on on Social Hall avenue Just when this do- do has not been beon work worl will wiIl bo started 4 cJ e Not Not- In fn a a. decade has there been beon tho the there is that demand for tor office space Salt S Lake Late In spite of at at present In the the fact that in tho the past ton ten years ears of office of- of fice cc accommodations have ha been moro more than trebled treble there is not a vac vacant place to to be hO found Those who bo are arc look look- 1 ing F for locations have been disappointed disappoint disappoint- ed ed and it is understood that practical practical- CHIt building building- has the l e crr every office In 1 licen eon cn rented for some onie time although I not it opened for tor the building I Is n 1 With tho the approach of ot spring there thero is isa demand for cottages an and c. c growing homes close in Families who havo have pent th the winter in hotels and apartments apartments apart apart- ments are already beginning to look for rr summer homes This It Is expected expect expect- ed J d will greatly add to the already large ge demand Conditions arc are forcing building and andin in b spite of high costs of material and labor there will be a lar largo large e amount of ot building carried on this spring Increases Reviewing the building situation S. S W Straus of ot S. S W. W Yo Straus StrauB Co says Thero hero continues to be a marked in increase in- in throughout through through- crea crease e In building operations out cut the country countr- For the month of or February tho total operations amounted amount amount- cd ed to approximately which I is IB a gain of ot over the month of January and an Increase of ot t COO oo over oer the month of ot D December ember WIth labor conditions throughout the United States apparently becoming more Inore stabilized there thero is every Indication Indication Indication Indica Indica- tion that these gains in tn the tho volume of or new construction will continue and that at there thero will be even greater In Increases Increases Increases In- In creases during the month of March c ther conditions also will be an and I d ed favorable incentive c for increased n activity While supplies of or building materials con continue to be bc limited at present the I improved labor con conditions are stimulating stimulating lating production making it t more moro convenient con con- for builders to proceed with operations Thero There is still an acute acuto and amI growing shortage of or housing accommodations in every part parl of at the tho country but ut there thore is 15 a steady Improvement in tho the number o of residential operations that are arc being undertaken and planned for or the remainder of oC the current year and commercial operations are arc also going forward at a more rapid rate than has been tho case caso for tor several soy sev eral months Building costs continue continuo to mo move e toward higher levels but this ten tendency en y i 1 is apparently not Interfering with op 01 leading cities of at the country re report that there thero is an unusual demand 11 for S space ace particularly for buildings of the larger types such as nc ng plants plant hotels office structures an anI and I apartment houses r ri |