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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
3 l; l' g2 T, ~Last 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.' N( y: D# N1 N5 t1 V
) v6 I- B6 L+ T"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.7 w4 {! ?( ^' X
% _: f* C& B2 X( z% g; ^6 B* }"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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; T7 l$ V/ _/ x& bHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent." G: g5 U7 h; N# ?# Y+ K
4 D$ i9 X$ `; h' o+ R, p* _0 NBut 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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5 ~! v; | d* w- T( VMcNaughton 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.3 Y) q" h! u! J8 Y4 J$ c8 K$ }
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5 l$ v+ |7 Z# x' g: ~Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.1 ^/ _- z* D! J9 b: t( J4 S
t/ r7 y9 q' n"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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