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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. n$ T) i0 J4 e0 R. ]7 g+ w
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT* O5 i) C6 o8 b/ k+ B) l* f
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E$ H( [6 J. S7 XAt 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.2 |/ U9 N2 {2 Y& P
9 V! D/ P* |1 F"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.3 Q/ f% A* e {5 w; N* ~" Y @8 [ {
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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."( I- a) I5 n+ A: ]( E M4 l' }1 o
" g) n& N* ?: p5 Y' M; eHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.2 A3 P% w+ Z4 S: U; s' _6 N1 d3 M# M
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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+ X6 `' g- U1 H1 f0 Z+ }Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.1 L5 N1 \- T% X- V0 i- e3 A/ S
6 h" c& S7 {$ x9 Q: ?"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.3 E, ^- `7 T( t4 Q5 \6 j
* s3 S- [8 |8 O9 ]! O% w5 _$ @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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