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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* M2 k9 Y ?, o- q% \8 }
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.
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) \5 S2 r" s( O"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. T4 U2 S0 z. d. P6 j9 z" A; ?
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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."2 l* u6 Y6 ?) \! y W1 _
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.- R, A$ D8 R5 @7 G0 ?4 c0 I3 j
; a( {, L/ m; n0 _$ Q uBut 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.2 B" y# o1 ~8 J' [+ ~/ n k! C
% C- ~. F% l, m3 A4 fMcNaughton 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.: L2 Z, [, [4 X' Q
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# N) D6 F; e. ^Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.& ^& _" A8 U' I! }4 u9 I5 Z, `0 N
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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- y# E9 d; Q/ ?1 XClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said., k9 x5 R/ O7 R8 e* `" d# P: b, {( D+ s
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