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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?- n: |# _* D. Q% E; O% P- x% z
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent0 W# t+ y4 @: l( U
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT3 r# X! @, Y+ O1 ~; T
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+ M& M6 i/ f# \) fAt 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., j4 p! P- \2 H4 Z7 y
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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.& o; L: z; c8 T8 u
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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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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.' |9 b0 m. E" \; N. c# x2 U& F
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent., \/ g* S7 B1 @. [9 D8 ^, p: e; C
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.1 |& L. g9 E" P9 N$ p
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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., n3 C6 g x' {- L2 j4 p: k* d2 @
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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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$ E3 D/ M) E6 W. a jClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.2 v# I) n; F( Z6 D4 ?
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