In July 2012, 210,746 Disney Vacation Club points were sold, marking the fifth time this year that sales exceeded 200,000 points for a month.
Once again, Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas led all Disney Vacation Club resorts with 151,802 points sold. Although both Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa and Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort are considered to be sold out, these resorts sold 24,973 points and 20,167 points, respectively, in July 2012.
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The sales data includes all seven 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.
Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas - So far in 2012, Disney Vacation Development has sold 888,260 points for Animal Kingdom Villas. It has also reacquired 59,187 points through foreclosure proceedings, exercising its Right of First Refusal on resale transactions, and other buyback reasons. As of July 31, 2012, 75.82% of Animal Kingdom Villas' 7.4 million points have been sold. Since DVD cannot sell more than 98% of Animal Kingdom Villas' total points to the general public, it still has about 1.64 million points left in its inventory.
In July 2012, DVD made two declarations for Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas, increasing the percentage of the resort declared for the DVC membership from 82.45% to 88.63%. This means that on any given Use Day Members can book up to 88.63% of the resort using points, while the remainder is used by DVD for cash reservations and other non-DVC bookings. Given the current rate of sales, DVD may need to make another declaration within the next few weeks.
Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort - In July 2012, 20,167 points were sold for Bay Lake Tower. Since July 2011 when it was considered to be "sold out" and no longer actively marketed by Disney Vacation Development, 390,489 points have been sold for Bay Lake Tower.
As with Animal Kingdom Villas, DVD cannot sell more than 98% of Bay Lake Tower's 5.7 million points to the general public. DVD has only about 162,000 points left unsold at Bay Lake Tower. The October Use Year is in shortest supply with only about 5,463 points left unsold followed by the December Use Year with 18,128 points remaining. The March Use Year, with 68,490 points, has the largest amount of unsold points.