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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?/ {, i5 x; Q. @$ ^9 l: z
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent) i. ]: z! A! I( z
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT. h5 _5 \' h* i; P8 w" b; b0 l1 n6 l
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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.# `# F+ G: y C+ `# D
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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.
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( Z; [0 k, D- G"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.") ^9 Z/ c' r& ~# P
8 g# J1 i8 u# \4 }( R" BHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.; g) `- L' M% ^/ Z7 l3 s
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.- p+ z3 N/ S$ b8 _! d
5 C5 ?5 m% N- r+ p! ~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.' m3 d. P. x! M( L- z
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2 A8 l4 r4 T4 S8 fKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.& }# v7 y$ {5 `( w" t3 E8 o9 i3 N& v
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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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9 l- [# X& N' B& pClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said." J, j( Z C, K$ R, s0 }
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