Dane County housing starts continued at a sluggish pace, registering at 68 for the month of August compared to 122 from a year ago - down 44%. This graph shows the number of housing starts dating back to January of 2005. Housing starts have been on a downward trend (noted by the red data points) for most of the past three-and-a-half years.
In fact this past August was the slowest August for housing starts going back at least 10 years. Here are the August housing start numbers dating back to 1999:
- August, 1999: 162
- August, 2000: 177
- August, 2001: 180
- August, 2002: 204
- August, 2003: 180
- August, 2004: 216
- August, 2005: 219
- August, 2006: 111
- August, 2007: 122
- August, 2008: 68
Thanks to Dominic Collar from MTD Marketing Services for making this data available. For more information, feel free to call Dominic at 920/993-8435, or visit our Dane County housing starts report, which includes the latest monthly, year-to-date and historical trends - updated each month at DaneCountyMarket.com.
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