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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Second Quarter 2005 - Table 10

                                           

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


                     (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments)



                                      PMSA: Miami, FL

                                   Percent absorbed in --

                            3 month            6 month              9 month              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           85        3.0         94         +          97        +          98         +
     Apr-Jun           96        2.0         97        2.1         98       1.1         100        +
     Jul-Sep            *         *           *         *           *        *           *         *
     Oct-Dec            #         #          77        9.0         92       3.6         96        1.7

2002 Jan-Mar           99         +          100        +          100       +          100        +
     Apr-Jun           95        2.9         100        +          100       +          100        +
     Jul-Sep           55        7.7         73        1.3         85       0.6         97        1.1
     Oct-Dec           47        7.9         63        4.6         97       0.9         99        0.6
  
2003 Jan-Mar            #         #          78        9.1         90       3.2         100        +
     Apr-Jun           86        0.7         95        0.7         98        +          98         *
     Jul-Sep            *         *           *         *           *        *           *         *
     Oct-Dec           78        2.1         90         *          95       0.9         98        1.7

2004 Jan-Mar            #         #           #         #           #        #          76       19.7  
     Apr-Jun           81       14.8         83        9.0         96       3.4         98        1.0          
     Jul-Sep           82       21.9         91       11.3         96       3.5 
     Oct-Dec          100         +         100         +

2005 Jan-Mar           *          *
     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




Go to Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates - Second Quarter 2005
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