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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Third Quarter 2004 - Table 5

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


                     (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments)



                                       PMSA: Dallas, TX

                                     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           67        1.4          89       1.6          97       0.6          99       +
     Apr-Jun           78        1.9          95       1.1          98       0.5          100      +
     Jul-Sep           75        4.2          85       3.0          94       1.8          96      1.5
     Oct-Dec           61        2.6          83       1.5          92       2.4          96       +

2001 Jan-Mar           42        8.9          69       16.2         90       4.4          91      3.3
     Apr-Jun           79        6.8          94       3.8          98       1.1          100      +
     Jul-Sep           60        4.2          74       4.0          86       2.6          93      5.9
     Oct-Dec           50        4.2          78       3.6          88       2.4          95      1.0

2002 Jan-Mar           59        3.1          83       3.2          91       3.5          94      2.3
     Apr-Jun           70        3.7          77       4.2          84       3.2          89      2.7
     Jul-Sep           58        4.1          71       4.4          79       2.9          88      2.5
     Oct-Dec           62        5.9          78       4.5          89       3.3          95      2.7

2003 Jan-Mar           66        2.7          89       1.9          99        +           100      +
     Apr-Jun           70        3.8          87       3.5          94       1.6          99      0.7
     Jul-Sep           68        6.5          81       5.3          91       3.0          98      1.6
     Oct-Dec            #         #           63       5.7          89       3.1

2004 Jan-Mar           55        2.1          77       2.8
     Apr-Jun           56       13.5
     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