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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Third Quarter 2004 - Table 3

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


                      (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments)



                                MSA: Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC

                                           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           23       3.8          64       2.6          91       5.5          98       2.1
     Apr-Jun           57       2.0          88       2.6          96       0.7          98       0.7
     Jul-Sep           48      10.4          73       6.1          92       2.1          98       0.5
     Oct-Dec           38       8.4          71       7.9          86       3.8          93       2.1

2001 Jan-Mar           39       6.5          72       4.9          83       4.1          88       2.1
     Apr-Jun           54       9.8          79       1.7          87       1.8          91       1.6
     Jul-Sep           56       2.7          74       3.3          87       4.3          96        +
     Oct-Dec           35       7.8          57       6.5          78       6.8          87       4.2

2002 Jan-Mar           43       7.2          59      11.7          68      14.1          70      14.7
     Apr-Jun           78      13.9          82      14.7          72      11.1          82      13.4
     Jul-Sep           72       3.4          82       1.4          91       1.5          96       0.9
     Oct-Dec           34       4.9          60       4.9          76       0.6          84       0.5

2003 Jan-Mar           55        +           82        +           99       0.8          97       0.8
     Apr-Jun           74       6.7          99       0.6         100        +          100        +
     Jul-Sep           36       7.0          61      12.7          61      10.5          87       7.9
     Oct-Dec           47       7.0          62       4.6          85       4.1

2004 Jan-Mar            *        *            *        *
     Apr-Jun           87       6.7
     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