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Show Heal estate in Boston has been Bcaled down a hundred millions by the assessors and rents have fallen in many cases 00 per cent. The sale of tho estate of E, S. Kaud, jr., of Dad-ham, Dad-ham, shows how little demand there is for property of this kind.' A lot which cost $2,300 two years and a half ago brought $1,409. A well-situated well-situated lot of eleven acres, which cost Mr. Rand $7,500, and had also a fine grapery and greenhouse costing $9,000 more, went for $-1,500 and one year's taxes. Soveral pieces were Jjid in by tho mortgagees, and on one tho mortgageo lost $1,100, besides interest asrl expenses. The total sales were only $13,000, and yot a mortgage for $110,000 had bocu placed upon tho lots. |