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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Third Quarter 2004 - 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 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/

2000 Jan-Mar           93        2.9         98        0.9         100       +          100        +
     Apr-Jun           94        1.3         96        2.5         100       +          100        +
     Jul-Sep           92        3.2         98        1.8         100       +          100        +
     Oct-Dec           96        1.2         98        0.5         99       0.7         99        0.7

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        0.2
     Jul-Sep            *         *           *         *           *        *           *         *
     Oct-Dec           78        2.1         90         *          95      0.9

2004 Jan-Mar            #         #           #         #
     Apr-Jun           80       16.3
     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

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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
Last Revised: March 11, 2005