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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?% [5 }3 @2 a K! z/ p. e
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent* p y' f# u. _" D
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT7 }# F5 B0 @9 z! z5 T
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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.' u* y' {# X: }* @+ E) R) q
7 w8 H/ z0 Y" L+ ^1 T' g% F, x; ^. ]"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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"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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. R( v8 F4 B5 M9 J/ e; 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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. R& c0 K! `/ k5 [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.; I9 q3 _% `- G/ B5 a U
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; a/ x" M" p# j# @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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"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.; X, [+ X+ m& r4 g% d- U
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