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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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" h, a$ N) r* c$ v4 Y0 B1 D2 XSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
4 p8 \) U; }& v. G) D7 vLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT1 r0 n& s/ X5 U& \ J) C0 k
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2 L1 \6 O3 k. sAt 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.) T. c9 t) Q4 s9 ] J( v U
4 w8 e& Z2 Y/ f9 j( v" |' o, y"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.* ^4 @& S/ m' n! D5 @
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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."( y. f0 H: T) K2 D0 w5 u5 [. d
7 e2 H. r' i( _- y2 i" S9 T/ ?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.1 F, ]; L* F) A& H+ g1 z* |4 p
: A. F" f+ X: WBut 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.' K6 b; S, l. H1 Y" S3 u
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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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' f9 S) G3 r, v/ y/ D2 J o) H+ ?Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.2 m: e* g, b5 }" l
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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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% M, A0 D( ?5 U0 qClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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