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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Second Quarter 2005 - Table 14

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


                     (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments)




                                     MSA: Orlando, 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           68        1.9         87        1.4         96        1.6         99         +
     Apr-Jun           80        4.7         91        3.8         97        2.2         99        0.7
     Jul-Sep           47        5.1         72        3.9         87        2.6         95        2.4
     Oct-Dec           58        4.2         77        4.3         91        1.0         95        1.4

2002 Jan-Mar           76        4.6         96        1.5         99         +          100       0.5
     Apr-Jun           82        3.6         90        8.0         92        2.6          96       1.7
     Jul-Sep           73        4.4         87        4.6         95        2.4          98       0.7
     Oct-Dec           76        1.8         84        2.0         95        0.8          99        +

2003 Jan-Mar           71        0.9         87        2.3         99        0.5         100        + 
     Apr-Jun           76        4.7         97        1.6         99        0.8         100        +
     Jul-Sep           82        5.4         94        1.9         99         +          100        +
     Oct-Dec           65        1.9         86        3.2         92        2.7          96       3.8 

2004 Jan-Mar           61        6.3         88        2.4         95        1.5          98       1.4
     Apr-Jun           68       15.6          #         #          90       19.4          93       8.6          
     Jul-Sep           *          *           *         *           *         * 
     Oct-Dec           67        4.0         86        3.6 

2005 Jan-Mar           62        7.8
     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