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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?5 ]& E: N5 v3 ~ [0 F
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent* A% k* d: T, \3 t: f
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT* f( r5 ?3 @! r6 J
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" c6 E0 J O/ _% U; e D; K0 V7 sAt 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.4 y4 O/ V) G5 U8 o2 l' e
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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.& ]& T# W X1 B7 \8 H
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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."+ r$ M# |- J( y! L2 S. E( p
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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( q6 A% D$ I! X1 mKevin 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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+ s' |7 E3 H7 X4 v' @"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.8 I7 W0 I5 O1 l. `0 ]
* h$ Y) T7 Q1 D, K3 h* Y6 I6 k5 ^Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.1 K9 t2 }4 r+ c3 K& u; |
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