Dane County housing starts down 67% in January

Dane County housing starts totaled 22 in January, down from the 66 in January of 2008. You'll see from the graph below that housing starts have been on the decline for the past several years.


Here's how housing starts have stacked up for each of the last 11 Januarys:

• January 1999: 83
• January 2000: 108
• January 2001: 156
• January 2002: 200
• January 2003: 144
• January 2004: 161
• January 2005: 132
• January 2006: 140
• January 2007: 75
• January 2008: 66
• January 2009: 22

You can check out our full report on the real estate trends page at DaneCountyMarket.com. Thanks to Dominic Collar from MTD Marketing Services of Wisconsin for sharing his data.

Have a good day,

Dan Miller, Keller Williams Realty and DaneCountyMarket.com