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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 agent
7 ~3 U3 l7 m( }/ V7 t- ULast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT3 I7 p! j6 x! l- C
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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. c7 b: W/ l0 J. ]) R6 T" U4 E
( u2 b! B f% Z& U t"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.% f0 C5 K4 E# f6 J1 _( S
& M" w" J- W) P"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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$ H' P G, U/ V7 RHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent." {1 i$ j% K q) m: r2 Z5 d% }5 j6 _
: ~2 D5 I6 z$ ^3 yBut 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.* s' x9 @, |/ {4 `; X
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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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/ f3 |2 f: `( Y1 L. D) r) e, O"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.2 r! P0 p4 r' R( L
- ?, B. E8 |6 h/ C$ D. n+ Q0 FClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.* z; ^& Y$ _9 w+ w4 M! _: z/ z
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