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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?" E7 F1 v" R l
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
5 M- r1 `1 d% ]! W& ~, bLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT6 D* G; j, H9 J3 b1 ]! Y
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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.. w# O3 X ^& l4 W9 i! k4 o: `
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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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"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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: [- g. f0 a) J" l: _2 H( 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.4 j- a/ x& K0 Y0 i
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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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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., r. Y! D7 r1 U5 f
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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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1 G# v- |8 w2 C9 g% x"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.% o% Y. H# x) c
6 ]) z) L% o( u. @& {9 X+ d i6 p) vClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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