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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Third Quarter 2004 - Table 6

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


                     (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments)



                                     CMSA: Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO

                                           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           77        3.8         96        1.2         98        0.8          99       +
     Apr-Jun           72        4.0         94        0.9         96        0.7          97      0.7
     Jul-Sep           85        7.5         89        7.5         91        6.5          98      1.5
     Oct-Dec           71        1.9         92        0.9         94        1.3          98      0.9

2001 Jan-Mar           74        2.8         92        1.2         98        0.6          98      0.5
     Apr-Jun           76        2.1         90        1.4         94        1.4          96      0.5
     Jul-Sep           62        3.1         74        3.9         84        3.0          90      3.4
     Oct-Dec           60        3.1         83        1.5         94        0.6          98       +

2002 Jan-Mar           66        4.9         88        1.4         95        0.8          97       +
     Apr-Jun           70        2.1         86        1.6         93        1.8          97      0.7
     Jul-Sep           66        2.4         77        2.9         83        3.8          89      2.9
     Oct-Dec           47        2.8         64        2.4         81        1.7          88      1.5

2003 Jan-Mar           55        1.8         76        2.7         87        1.7          92      0.8
     Apr-Jun           65        3.4         80        1.6         87        1.5          94      1.1
     Jul-Sep           45        3.8         70        2.5         88        2.8          94      2.3
     Oct-Dec           67        1.9         85        2.2         95        4.7

2004 Jan-Mar          \r55       5.4         73        5.7
     Apr-Jun           53        6.5
     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