Show I REMARKABLE YEAR I i I FOR REAL ESTATE I I Values in All Lines Have Shown Consistent In Increase Increase crease All Over The year jUt just closed was a remarks remarkable ble year ear in real estate circles Prices of busIness and residence property started early in the year on a gradual climb and at the beginning of the new year are still climbing The boom feature has been entirely lack lacking lug ing and the advance In prices is due to the wonderful growth of the city In population Dealers generally are of the opinion that 1910 will wUl be an even greater year year for real estate tate than was 1909 The p past st year marked an epoch in inthe inthe the real estate and building history or of Salt Lake The Newhouse and Bos Bost t n buildings commenced about three years ago were completed and occupied occupied pied by business and professional men menas menas as offices The foundatIon for the Kearns building another large office structure was commenced during the I latter part of last year Two main mam mammoth moth hotel structures the Newhouse and the tho Utah were projected and ex excavation work was Started Apartment houses and residences have he been en built In great number and several fine ho hotels hotels were practically completed during the past year One of the special features of the thereal thereal real estate market during the year was the great Influx of outside capital int the Held field Investors from the west and from the east are putting their money Into local realty and many of them are contemplating extensive im improvementS The advance In prices has not been confined to anyone any one part of the city though the most notIceable Increase has been In Main Iain street property With the gradual extension of the business district to the south there has been beena a lively demand for property In the vIcinity of the Newhouse skyscrapers In this district property has shown a wonderful Increase in price In one years time Investors have looked with favor favoron on State street also iso aa a a coming thor thoroughfare with the result that many Investments have been made 1 Much of the property purchased was for im improvement improvement provement though the speculative ele cle clement element ment entered more strongly perhaps into State street realty than Into that of any other section |