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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?/ b% K0 g9 `- b6 K
1 D4 L& ?3 D9 ~" uSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
" K ^0 E T- k& p2 gLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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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.
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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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# z2 Y: z& B& C% e"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."6 a, O' R. {8 @2 X% j! I
9 g+ T" `: f( j! o2 `4 A4 m" E VHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.: X+ q; \, D9 ?$ L# I1 K j' u, M
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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.: Z" Y/ M4 c' y
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8 z. m2 X' Y; s% G, ^: V& P3 xKevin 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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9 j* ]( Q1 c1 _! _3 t"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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% e* [1 r1 l/ q: _' v8 F% T$ VClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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