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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
6 R/ q) [$ [& \6 x( aLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT2 ^. j" m- @) h* M# c/ L! U! t- \
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+ U K: F8 o+ J; o2 _3 vAt 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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"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 $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.; ^1 I2 L3 L0 W: I l
- l* m1 H/ S1 v+ S, |: cBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.$ W! b1 G9 k7 y% a' v" u1 I
( R& V+ n) D r1 yMcNaughton 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.6 X" ~+ T, h0 G1 @6 e7 D
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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.# \$ O" G w0 h: q+ q
L+ e8 z8 X; e0 P/ }- p"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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% T2 R' {8 V" K6 {0 T! _/ O/ w X. ^# ?Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.3 K$ K A- |0 |; g
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