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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Third Quarter 2004 - Table 9

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


                     (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments)




                               PMSA: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA

                                         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           88        3.0         99        +           99        +           100       +
     Apr-Jun           100        +         100        +          100        +           100       +
     Jul-Sep           88        9.5         92       8.3          98       2.2          99       0.5
     Oct-Dec           62        2.7         80       2.4          96       1.3          99       0.6

2001 Jan-Mar            #         #          65      12.7          77       0.9          95       1.8
     Apr-Jun           74        6.7         87       3.6          93       0.6          98       0.6
     Jul-Sep           59        4.6         84       4.8          96       1.6          100       +
     Oct-Dec           81        2.6         89       1.9          95       0.6          95       2.8

2002 Jan-Mar            #         #          72      10.2          94       4.9          91       0.9
     Apr-Jun           67       11.9         73      11.9          84       7.4          93       3.2
     Jul-Sep           92        5.5         96       5.6         100        +          100        +
     Oct-Dec            #         #           #        #           95       3.7          97       2.7

2003 Jan-Mar           47       10.7         70       9.5          75       7.6          81       4.8
     Apr-Jun           82        7.4         90       5.6          95       1.3          97       0.8
     Jul-Sep           55       11.1         72      10.9          79      10.5          89       9.3
     Oct-Dec           65        7.8         81       7.7          84      12.0

2004 Jan-Mar          \r86      12.7         92       5.7
     Apr-Jun           61       11.1
     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