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Absorption rate

Market Research

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The pace at which available units are sold or leased over a period; it drives phasing decisions and reveals whether a pipeline is oversupplying a submarket.

Related terms

  • Asking price

    The advertised price of a property, which in many markets differs materially from the transacted price.

  • Benchmarking

    Comparing an asset or scheme against a defined set of competitors on price, quality, and terms.

  • Catchment

    The geographic area from which a retail or service asset draws its customers.

  • Comparable (comp)

    A similar transaction or asset used as a reference point, always requiring adjustment for differences.

  • Confidence interval

    The range within which a true value is likely to fall given sample data, at a stated probability; it tells you how much to trust a survey-based estimate.

  • Days on market

    The average time a listing takes to sell or lease; rising days on market is an early sign of softening demand before prices visibly move.

  • Demand driver

    An underlying factor - jobs, population, income, tourism - that generates need for real estate.

  • Demand-supply gap

    The shortfall or surplus between the units a market needs and those it delivers; Egypt's persistent housing deficit and Gulf oversupply cycles are two sides of…