Housing starts up for the second straight month...

...but still low by historical standards. Dane County had 71 housing starts during the month of July, up 42% from the 50 housing starts from July of 2008. For more details, you can check out our full housing start report on the real estate trends page at DaneCountyMarket.com.

We will be reporting one other bit of encouraging news in the next few days. Dane County single family home sales were up noticeably in July. Our preliminary report on the month of July will be out next weekend.

Thanks to Dominic Collar from MTD Marketing Services of Wisconsin for sharing his housing start data. For more information about his statistics, feel free to contact Dominic directly at 920/993-8435.

Have a good day,

Dan Miller, Keller Williams Realty and DaneCountyMarket.com