Sales remain steady in October 2013 Written by Wil Lovato. November 13 2013 Posted in Financial News

Direct sales of Disney Vacation Club points by Disney Vacation Development remained steady in October 2013. For the month, 173,715 points were sold, nearly the same as September 2013's 175,044 points sold.

Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas barely edged out the Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa for most points sold. Animal Kingdom Villas sold 75,241 points, just 17 more points than the Grand Floridian which sold 75,224 points.

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Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa -- With 75,224 points sold in October '13, the Grand Floridian has now sold 23.7% of its 2.5 million points. If sales were to continue at the rate of 75,000 points a month, it will take about 25 months before the Grand Floridian are completely sold out.

To date, the Grand Floridian has sold 158 Fixed Week deeds. The most popular Fixed Weeks are in the months of November and December. Week #49, which starts on December 8, 2013, has sold 17 Fixed Week deeds. Close behind are weeks #47, #51, and #52 with 16 Fixed Week deeds each. The month of April has the least number of Fixed Week deeds sold with only two deeds sold so far.

Disney Vacation Development continues to use the April as the default Use Year when buyers do not request a specific Use Year. About 42.9% of the points sold for the Grand Floridian are in the April Use Year. The next most common Use Year is December, which accounts for about 11.6% of the points sold so far.

Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas -- With 75,241 points sold In October '13, Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas sold slightly more points than in September '13 when it sold 74,200 points. Disney Vacation Development has sold about 92.8% of the points at this resort, leaving it with 381,876 points that it can still sell to the general public.

During October '13, Disney Vacation Development assigned Use Years to five more Units and started using those Units to support sales. There are only two Units -- 90B and 95C -- that have yet to be used to support sales and be assigned a Use Year.

Of the 324 Units at Animal Kingdom Villas that have been assigned Use Years, December is by far the most common, accounting for 32.4% of the resort's total points. The February Use Year is a distant second, accounting for 14.5% of Animal Kingdom Villas' points. April and September, with 6.95% and 6.97%, respectively, are the least common Use Years at this resort.

The sales data includes all eight DVC resorts at Walt Disney World, as well as Disney's Vero Beach Resort and Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort. Point sales data is not available for the Villas at Disney's Grand California Hotel or for Aulani, Disney Vacation Club Villas. The data is compiled from deeds filed by Disney Vacation Development and recorded with the Orange County (FL) Comptroller, the Indian River County (FL) Clerk of Court, and the Beaufort County (SC) Register of Deeds.

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