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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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[- L6 D M8 M" P, q8 ^& A4 uSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
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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., M3 `% q8 Z, H" `
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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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"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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+ f% b' m; E- s- [. y' d" xHousing 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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+ ?4 i; n' }, [/ G. X3 ?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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; z5 Z& v. E, l1 |( ^McNaughton 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.
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3 f2 \5 R) u% L \"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.9 P8 p7 j& h1 y1 d# \1 Z, i
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Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.1 g/ j* X% @5 k7 ^9 O9 G/ t( q* }& [- \
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