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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?: ^: S3 o4 b; \
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent. \( r6 w' t% w3 m9 `/ q5 d
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT$ C0 D: t6 ]6 b8 W0 e# t
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& z! f, z( `; l h- v7 BAt 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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: ^6 j- y) H$ ["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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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices. } {8 }( K }+ s$ q) a
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3 t2 J) _, \' x7 s1 hKevin 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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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said./ P; a: ]" Z( t% F5 {# l1 R0 D
5 S+ G0 B1 \+ E4 k& \' K; q" z; N' CClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.7 ]2 w* L1 C: n' \% J- M3 u: E* T
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