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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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( h3 V& u2 e6 J6 iSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent+ q, A2 S; D8 V
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.' u9 ]3 E' P) m
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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."2 }% A: Q. S7 C, R& b6 h
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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1 S# F r. U: [* t" X* l3 vBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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6 o" d6 N$ f! n/ C4 g; [; x/ [+ LMcNaughton 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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2 Q$ F o8 b& f& ["There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.. {& U2 w! x0 K2 O7 U7 u1 ^
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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.2 \# ]% ? F' x% G, k
1 y. h- ` {! `8 Z$ C1 K[ 本帖最后由 醉酒当歌 于 2007-1-23 22:12 编辑 ] |
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