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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?9 G% h) c9 z3 ?) f
) i+ h% c. \+ U: [& l0 W4 |Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
. H9 L: {7 ~1 P% H3 l, e lLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT+ Q( t, Q9 c$ G# e0 N9 w4 p
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: C- @* V. P' @6 L! h! PAt 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 Z5 s6 y- h) i* u( _% T: b; R
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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.* g* q% q2 w3 u9 s8 D, Z* w- g
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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 $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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* d/ v S' A O5 P3 d1 ^McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices." S* I! r4 r$ 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.' ]* I. Z' k4 e
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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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; l* u+ N+ j0 Q2 \5 o9 lClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.1 B: B5 ?! g( N. ?& v h- v
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