Direct Sales Improve in August 2017

So far in 2017, over 1.5 million DVC points have been sold for the Walt Disney World resorts. This is the highest sales amount for the start of a calendar year since 1.7 million points were sold in 2012.

When compared to the average sales over the prior 12-month period, August sales are up 17.8%, and are up 25.5% when compared to average sales over the last 24-month period.

Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows — In August, 114,702 points were sold for the resort. Although August sales were slightly better than the 107,734 points sold in the previous month, they are below the 130,156 points the Polynesian has averaged over the last 12 months.

The Polynesian has now sold 3,436,178 points, or 85.2% of its 4,032,720 total points. This includes 60 deeds containing 8,298 points that have been reacquired by Disney through buybacks, foreclosures, and exercising its Right of First Refusal on third-party resale transactions.

Disney must retain at least 2% of the Polynesian’s total points for itself, leaving it with about 515,888 points remaining that can be sold to the general public. However, since there are hundreds of transactions that are pending awaiting closure, Disney has far fewer than that amount of points left in its inventory. If the resort continues to sell points at the same rate as it has over the last 12 months, the Polynesian would be completely sold out by December 2017. In the past, Disney has considered a resort to the “sold out” when 92% to 95% of the resort has been sold. If that happens again, the Polynesian should reach “sold out” status in the next two or three months.

All of the Polynesian’s 360 studios and 20 bungalows have been declared for the DVC inventory. This means that all villas and bungalows are available to DVC members to book using points.

Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge — Copper Creek sold 393 deeds containing 59,527 points in August, which is the most number of deeds and points since sales started to be recorded in April 2017. So far, Copper Creek has sold 231,993 points, which is about 7.0% of its 3,321,954 total points.

The Fixed Week option has not appealed to most Copper Creek buyers. No Fixed Week deeds were sold in August and only eight such deeds have been sold so far for the resort. The eight Fixed Week deeds account for only 0.5% of the points sold for Copper Creek, below the 0.8% sold for the Polynesian and well below the 4.0% recorded by the Villas at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort.

Disney has declared 48 of Copper Creek’s 184 vacation homes for the DVC inventory. In terms of points, the 48 declared vacation homes account for about 1,021,430 (30.7%) of the resort’s 3,321,966 points. As Disney sells more points for Copper Creek, it will declare more vacation homes for the DVC inventory.

Aulani, Disney Vacation Club Villas — Sales data for Aulani is only available through May 2017. In April and May, only 22,316 points and 16,659 points, respectively, were sold. These are the fewest number of points sold in the 37 months that sales have been tracked for Aulani.

The sales data includes all nine DVC resorts at Walt Disney World, as well as Disney's Vero Beach Resort, Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort, and Aulani, Disney Vacation Club Villas. Point sales data is not available for the Villas at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel. 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, the Beaufort County (SC) Register of Deeds, and the Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances.

Thanks to Imdizfan for helping compile sales data!

Wil Lovato is a contributor to DVCNews.com and has been a Disney Vacation Club owner since 2009. His DVC Home Resorts include Bay Lake Tower, Animal Kingdom Villas, and Aulani. He can be found posting on many Disney discussion forums under the username of “wdrl.”