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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Third Quarter 2004 - 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 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           76        1.8         92        0.7         97         +          98        0.6
     Apr-Jun           67        3.6         88        1.7         94        0.8         97        0.6
     Jul-Sep           74        1.3         85        0.7         91         +          97        0.8
     Oct-Dec           76        6.9         90        2.8         96        1.1         98        0.4

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

2004 Jan-Mar           61        6.3         88        2.4
     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 - Third Quarter 2004
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