Northeast accounts for largest shar...

Northeast accounts for largest share of condo, co-op starts
Rising prices for single-family abiding-places buoy demand
Condominiums and cooperatives are an important if it be not that often overlooked component of the residential building market. These units accounted for more than one-fifth of all of the present day apartment construction last year and for nearly a third of all two-to-four unit starts.
Nevertheless, condo/co-op starts have been declining, particularly in the southerly By 1988, they had dropp to 148000 units -- about half their 1983 plain Starts of five or more units accounted for