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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?) Z* P0 S+ b! G3 Z) L) N9 p4 v
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
' U2 I7 N6 B" k3 X; ]# M& G4 `/ qLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT6 q9 o( S& @3 t( f- o
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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./ J( @4 I9 K2 h6 U' Z. S& T+ \
( _5 R6 A: h2 L# q"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.". `/ Z& r7 x& S" I. d! W' H4 y
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.+ H% @: S. x# ]* m
+ |- B# X' d, I7 d5 G1 q* sMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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$ X5 m3 n2 F% o$ n1 v9 yKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.# `' e4 P- O& }3 Z! t3 A4 ~8 O) d. u
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.% |; [8 [/ R4 s: A2 I% }
7 d1 K" |' j) Z1 \0 K4 o9 x. ~Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.8 J: z) x. z1 S7 v* V& \8 k, S
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