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ruh but thee j:; j"atdeal Of a vt Ivit v. I Ituses 1 a re beigg buijtii alsZ8andtye a lkid ýt il, P * The nîai1rk ut #)H 1,in)#î>iVed Jir(>JK>1- tY, 'hiiwever. ha.- %; e d rorward sorn* buJjjt, thumg tite rate a r whieh vacant and new C.E. Drayer conlstrctionl bas gotten under way. From wehat I have. experlencèd -in Wilmette -aud what 1 have seen down here, now Is thtiUre to buY a good home a.:lready, buflt at a Iow price, as the trend seems to be si) déeldedly toward vacant and 1nOw m ern constructiont and appointments in a home. Quality f, .terlal, and work- manshlp as compared %vith that In oome oUtthe older places beling much Inferlor is Ios.t sight- (ifentirely-if k looks good.' *Comment on. that observation would but blur its clarity and duil ils incisive- îîess. It is also a piclure of real es- tale activity on the north shore. First Straws of Sellera' Market ~Pces are clianging ûpward.Wtl: the Iast nmontb or so four homes we luuow ]lave .sold at the sellers' prices. Suicilubas uot bappeuîed 1for eigl years. - ieIre art te first iew >straws raised by a changing wind. So miark the reco)rd that ini Deceinber, 1936, the first sales wcre recorded forecastiing the comng change froîxi a buycrs' to a sellers' nmarket in the presenl cycle, that wo rthy acI. Appraisals for HO)IC loans were generally over the then market p).rice. To absorb this appraisal anticipation and satis fY the ow ner for his eýqu1ty requires, i. some cases,: a bit higher level than 'thé. market is ready to pay:for the, older bouse îoday. Ren@deling Now Time1y Most *of itbe býouses>on iimte -norîlu Shore are old or older, froni the- view- Point uf theg ,eeration n11W. buying, houses. 'These buyers, want-and îhey are very righl-air coi ditioiuig, in- sulalion. indirect lighlilg. bette r de- sig, prliularly - l the kitchefl. They wauît.thie., é creature corniontsin the' bouse Nyheui they gel the key. 1Oif the..other.baud preselt owuers recal itl *tey. paid so much and -give up with reluctance 'the tradit-ion that they should mnake a Profit on the bouse or gel aI least whaî they paid fo~r it. Uuses should be re garded. a, >any other consumnable article -use and age reduces value. tTbeoretically an old bouse in ils comipetition with the new is worlb tbe 1cost of a new bouse on the same laud Iess the cost tb make the old house cthe equivalent of the new. In some cases tbis would be not L) nuch more Iban groud value. In pr operty *was at the botlom ii 1932 1toilet lavatory on the first, air condi- was watiigi for il bo go lower. H1e toning aud insulate, tben ils presenl probably uever wilI own a home uuless value should be subsîautially what. bis. wife nags hlm iîîlto it. 1 hope sue tbe remainder is afler deducting the reads Ibis. cost to remodel from the cosl of a - Change in Progresu uew bouse. of like facilities on the Othiers-especially owners of okier saine land, Iafford than a new ont out other, important, one aS %,1 cU ilaUcnt xmore will shut quite wrong, yet ils for theI isfaction are- neyer ýnds in sat- ii the iiear'ý fp ,e ý au