Real Estate Analysis Company records
Scope and Contents
Collection contains more than 1650 volumes compiled by the Real Estate Analysis Company (1949-1990s). The volumes form an index called the Real Estate Sales Data Bank. The data bank provided information on residential, commercial, and industrial properties. The entries can include past and present listings, sales histories, and ownership information. Other information includes land dimensions, improvements, terms of sale, and terms of financing. Some entries also contain multiple listing service property sheets with photographs or printed images of the properties. The bulk of the volumes reference residential real estate arranged alphabetically (A-Z) by street name and then by streets with numeric names. Additional volumes cover apartment buildings, office buildings, commercial buildings, shopping centers, retail space, and industrial warehouses arranged by city and/or county.
Dates
- 1949-1990s
Creator
- Wedgwood, Van C., (Person)
- Real Estate Analysis Company (Wheat Ridge, Colo.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Conditions Governing Access
Contact Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the author of the items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
The Real Estate Analysis Company was founded by Lee R. Wedgwood in 1949 as a subsidiary to his real estate firm, Wedgwood, Ltd., Realtors in Wheat Ridge, Colo. The company's Real Estate Sales Data Bank provided real estate sales and property information to realtors, appraisers, attorneys, insurance agents and adjustors, and investors. Information was derived from county tax records, the Muti-List, Rocky Mountain Journal, and every real estate directory published for Denver. The data bank was also used more broadly to define trends in real estate sales. It continued in existence into the 1990s. At the time, the index was preported to cover 98% of the real esate market in the four counties of the metro Denver area: Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, and Jefferson. The data bank was a paper based, real estate research library that fuctioned much like what would be considered an electronic database today.
Extent
1650 Volumes
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift;Van C. Wedgwood;2013.
General
Catalog record based on preliminary inventory.
Varying Form of Title
Real Estate Sales Data Bank.
- Adams County (Colo.) -- Housing -- Indexes. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Arapahoe County (Colo.) -- Housing -- Indexes. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Commercial real estate -- Valuation -- Colorado -- Denver Metropolitan Area -- 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Databases Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Denver (Colo.) -- Housing -- Indexes. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Denver Metropolitan Area (Colo.) -- Housing -- Indexes. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indexes (reference sources) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Industrial real estate -- Valuation -- Colorado -- Denver Metropolitan Area -- 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Jefferson County (Colo.) -- Housing -- Indexes. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Multiple listing -- Colorado -- Denver Metropolitan Area -- 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Real Estate Analysis Company (Wheat Ridge, Colo.) -- Indexes.
- Real estate Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Real property -- Colorado -- Denver Metropolitan Area -- Examinations, questions, etc. -- 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Residential real estate -- Valuation -- Colorado -- Denver Metropolitan Area -- 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Wedgwood, Lee R. (Lee Robert), 1924-2013.
- Wedgwood, Ltd., Realtors (Wheat Ridge, Colo.)
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Real Estate Analysis Company records,1949-1990's
- Author
- Finding Aid prepared from MARC data.
- Description rules
- Rda
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Repository
