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CBC关于卡城待售房40%空置率的原文 -- 醉酒真的预测失败了吗?" _8 I8 |0 P4 I4 `5 H" u
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Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT ]0 e. O5 ]' m% ~
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At least a third of condos and houses on the market in Calgary are vacant, prompting concern from a real estate agent that sellers aren't being realistic about the price they hope to get for their properties.2 K& v# B; D2 [- T; m6 }
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"Sellers are having a hard time grasping that we are not in early last year's market," said Kristen McNaughton, a Calgary real estate agent.: W' s% n8 s" k6 m. _/ a
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"In the fall, we definitely saw a dip, and it cooled down to more of a balanced market and that's what needed to happen."9 ]% Y/ z% }* C; L8 a
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.9 \8 `" U q/ [% S) O) \7 f* S
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' m1 W0 F; o* L! cMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.# B' b6 p/ V1 W
" ]: { X' b: b" E& q% y5 y5 Q"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said." k6 j2 Q( ]0 v6 ~2 N, t
: ^1 \- p% f- X# I- \- {: `, |- KClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.& X1 Q* [ m3 F: N% Z5 ?7 O8 K
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