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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
/ M- p: s5 S& s* V2 U' ~0 ]Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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0 h% p3 u- J- i! j% {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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"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."" v. ~) X! ~5 P9 z
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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.. Q8 S& y! P X l
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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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3 R1 _/ ~. s8 cMcNaughton 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.' l& Q; O) {) W# z( d
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0 d1 t6 {2 B9 N% c* b) w5 jKevin 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.
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0 w2 d& C# H) J+ D& S, OClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.9 K c: [; q, T! n
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