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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?
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent5 p Y, _5 ^ `# m8 G
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT+ y7 d0 m' h/ b$ M9 G- c# o" N5 D0 M+ h
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4 w- ^) K5 \" MAt 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.
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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.
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6 V& q2 p9 g2 h7 @3 D"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."
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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9 K' B% i& B) s8 TMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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/ {# w; g/ V6 a1 V) S/ v, jKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.+ c1 K4 e' P( \! C( H, L5 c: Y7 E
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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( f% i. J& j2 k# h$ }( OClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said. u4 A- ~- a1 T9 x
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