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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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, [& V& r: L8 @Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent" a6 S. W3 _& g# V" i7 s8 l' h0 u
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT$ K* T9 v6 g |6 P1 ^
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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.6 K2 q$ D3 b0 [2 l
6 J. |, ^! l# P3 \0 o N"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.1 K' n1 W u- r. t- k
2 M6 o& w% \. s4 W) i"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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4 u3 T6 d: H0 [' z1 V5 |: Z$ \Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.% b2 Y" C) {" R% I0 @% u
7 B: n1 f& b2 E# C k' M, jBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.0 T4 }) z$ s% y& R7 l$ I
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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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: N. S8 Y& b6 L5 f) x) ZClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.. Y7 f6 I4 o+ S4 f5 ]5 E
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