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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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; v4 J! b: t3 [3 yLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT/ S: J) j7 j: Y9 O4 S1 t1 V4 u' ~
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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.6 v+ H3 R2 e. N( a, r+ W. Q
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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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% H4 o& T0 ~7 R# L" B& I$ SHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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6 a, r' Q* c: d1 m( r) sBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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6 g3 H8 c U2 b) n" `McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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0 L( n* Q6 \' ]$ c" v& }( u"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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6 s' U) |( m4 i6 x% S2 hClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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