DVC Resorts Ranked by Resale Sales Volume
Below is a table ranking all 14 current DVC resorts based on their resale volume in 2018 for contracts sold through DVC Resale Market.
It may be little to no surprise that Disney World based DVC properties command the top half of the list. In fact, the top three resorts represent roughly half of the entire resale volume: Saratoga Springs, Animal Kingdom and Bay Lake Tower. Two of the main reasons for these resorts dominating the resale volume can be attributed to:
- Being large resorts that are already “sold out” by the developer, so consequently, there is a lot of inventory that can be sold.
- These three resorts typically rank high in the best long term economical resorts to own with Saratoga Springs and Bay Lake Tower commonly ranking 1 and 2 respectively.
It is important to note that direct sales for Copper Creek didn’t begin until 2017, so Copper Creek has yet to mature in the resale market.
| Resort | Sales Volume 2018 | % of Total Volume | Rank |
| Saratoga Springs | $11,397,890 | 21% | 1 |
| Animal Kingdom | $8,333,707 | 16% | 2 |
| Bay Lake Tower | $6,767,332 | 13% | 3 |
| Grand Floridian | $4,233,983 | 8% | 4 |
| Polynesian | $3,800,178 | 7% | 5 |
| Old Key West | $3,695,267 | 7% | 6 |
| Boardwalk | $3,405,683 | 6% | 7 |
| Beach Club | $2,782,641 | 5% | 8 |
| Aulani | $2,479,234 | 5% | 9 |
| Grand Californian | $2,264,816 | 4% | 10 |
| Boulder Ridge | $1,503,565 | 3% | 11 |
| Vero Beach | $1,333,797 | 3% | 12 |
| Hilton Head | $903,930 | 2% | 13 |
| Copper Creek | $223,032 | <1% | 14 |
*Sales volume data is from resale contracts sold by DVC Resale Market in 2018.
The pie chart below shows the percentage of sales volume by DVC Resort location for 2018 (based on DVC Resale Market sales):
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Comments
I’d like to see this data with each resort listing the number of contracts sold and the average size of contract. Should be easy math based on what you already have 😉
Drew, we did also run the the numbers for contract volume, but we haven’t done the analysis on average size by resort yet. Below is the net number of contracts sold (cancels removed), and the average size will likely come out in a future blog:
Animal Kingdom 483
Aulani 132
Bay Lake Tower 308
Beach Club 129
Boardwalk 158
Boulder Ridge 93
Copper Creek 11
Grand Californian 86
Grand Flordian 180
Hilton Head 73
Old Key West 216
Polynesian 214
Saratoga Springs 648
Vero Beach 115