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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Third Quarter 2004 - Table 15

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


                     (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments)




                            MSA: Richmond-Petersburg, VA (Richmond part)

                                      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           55        +          91         +          97         +          100        +
     Apr-Jun           74        +          88         +          98         +          100        +
     Jul-Sep           73        +          93         +          99         +          99         +
     Oct-Dec           32        +          61         +          80         +          88         +
    
2001 Jan-Mar            *        *           *         *           *         *           *         *
     Apr-Jun            *        *           *         *           *         *           *         *
     Jul-Sep            *        *           *         *           *         *           *         *
     Oct-Dec            *        *           *         *           *         *           *         *

2002 Jan-Mar            *        *           *         *           *         *           *         *
     Apr-Jun           65        +          86         +          92         +          97         +
     Jul-Sep           56        +          70         +          77         +          83         +
     Oct-Dec           18        +          45         +          68         +          90         +

2003 Jan-Mar            -        -           -         -           -         -           -         -
     Apr-Jun            *        *           *         *           *         *           *         *
     Jul-Sep            *        *           *         *           *         *           *         *
     Oct-Dec           50        +          76         +          90         +

2004 Jan-Mar           34        +          67         +
     Apr-Jun           49        +
     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