By Derek Johnson
Special to Waukesha County Home
WAUKESHA COUNTY — As the
housing market continues to
boom across the country, home
builders and renovators in Wauke-
sha County have been working
day and night to keep up with an
unprecedented spike in demand
for new homes and renovations on
existing houses.
Daryl Prusow, the owner of the
Hartland-based Espire Homes,
said that he's never seen as much
demand for his services in the
roughly 20 years he's been work-
ing in the industry as he has this
year.
"I've never been this busy," Pru-
sow said.
Prusow said that his company
has been building many new hous-
es as well as renovating existing
homes for people who have been
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Builder: 'I've
never been
this busy'
Photo courtesy of MBA
Builders like Allan Builders, LLC, report an especially busy time amid high demand in the pandemic. An Allan home
from 2019 is shown above.