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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?0 e8 S2 w# G, o! @, M" H; k4 q
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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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"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.- H1 a; |9 y& Q5 ^+ N& s" T4 w
5 ]/ x: e2 [1 @+ t$ H"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."! K! N: d/ z, C+ W+ n0 c7 F
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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.1 H8 k4 v' |( d0 S5 g/ P8 R" p
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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.' d- Y: D/ F* r% Q, ]
% x+ D* C" b/ b& q( j7 wMcNaughton 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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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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# \4 Q+ J( s- K( M! E! k"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said. |* ]; f6 c/ T( k5 ?# M
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