U.S. Census Bureau
 Survey of Market Absorption of Apartments (SOMA)



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Second Quarter 2005 - Table 1


											
	                                  SURVEY OF MARKET ABSORPTION
                     Estimates of  Absorption Rates by Quarter of Completion


                     (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartment


                                     MSA: Atlanta, GA

                                   Percent absorbed in --

                      3 months                 6 months                     9 months                 12 months

Quarter of                   90%                       90%                        90%                       90%
completion       Percent   C.I.(+/-)2/    Percent   C.I.(+/-)2/    Percent   C.I.(+/-)2/    Percent   C.I.(+/-)2/

2001 Jan-Mar      60         8.9            84          4.3           94        3.4           97        1.4
     Apr-Jun      54         2.9            80          1.4           92        0.9           98        0.8
     Jul-Sep      44         1.9            69          2.5           85        1.6           95        1.0
     Oct-Dec      32         2.2            59          3.4           78        4.5           86        4.8

2002 Jan-Mar      44         4.9            70          5.4           82        3.9           92        1.0
     Apr-Jun      57         7.1            76          7.8           88        6.0           95        3.3
     Jul-Sep      53        12.4            79          5.7           90        2.6           96        1.3
     Oct-Dec      35         6.8            78          3.2           93        0.9           98        0.6

2003 Jan-Mar      39         5.8            63          4.8           75        2.6           87        1.6
     Apr-Jun      37         3.7            67          6.7           81        6.0           88        2.9
     Jul-Sep      51        11.1            77          4.4           86        2.4           96        1.0
     Oct-Dec      52         4.1            75          3.0           90        3.4           96        2.7

2004 Jan-Mar      50         15.0           76          9.5           84        3.8           88        4.2
     Apr-Jun      56         11.2           89          6.0           99        0.7           100        +  
     Jul-Sep      70         14.4           83          6.2           90        2.9 
     Oct-Dec      38         18.6           74          9.5

2005 Jan-Mar      50         11.1
     Apr-Jun      
     Jul-Sep    
     Oct-Dec       

2/A 90-percent confidence interval is a measure of an estimate's variability.  The larger the confidence interval
    in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate.
r = Revised
* = Data suppressed to avoid disclosure
+ = Estimated to be less than one half of one percent OR cannot be estimated
- = No activity
# = Withheld because the estimate did not meet publication standards because of the associated standard error


U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division
Washington, D.C. 20233



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Contact Alan Friedman at 301-763-3199 or mail to alan.friedman@census.gov for further information on the Survey of Market Absorption of Apartments Data.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division