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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Third Quarter 2004 - Table 19

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


                    (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments)



                             MSA: Tampa- St. Petersburg-Clearwater, 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           56        1.8         81        2.6         89        1.1         94        0.7
     Apr-Jun           69        4.5         85        2.8         93        1.9         96        0.9
     Jul-Sep           64        1.9         77        1.7         91        1.6         97        0.5
     Oct-Dec           57        7.3         76        5.9         92        2.6         95        1.3

2001 Jan-Mar           70        3.7         86        3.8         93        2.2         97        1.0
     Apr-Jun           62        4.3         77        3.4         89        2.6         97         +
     Jul-Sep           69        1.2         84        1.9         92        1.7         97        1.3
     Oct-Dec           51        1.7         71        1.1         83        4.2         90         +

2002 Jan-Mar           63        6.3         75        4.5         84        4.3         90        2.4
     Apr-Jun           61        6.0         78        3.3         84        2.2         93        1.1
     Jul-Sep           55        3.7         73        3.8         82        2.2         90        1.8
     Oct-Dec           32        4.9         57        4.8         75        3.0         84        2.1

2003 Jan-Mar           41        6.0         75        5.3         95        1.4         98        0.9
     Apr-Jun           64        5.8         86        4.4         93        3.0         98         +
     Jul-Sep           49        1.7         75        2.5         87        1.2         95        1.2
     Oct-Dec           60        2.0         76        2.2         88        5.8

2004 Jan-Mar           66        7.4         83        4.5
     Apr-Jun           63        4.0
     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