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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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5 i5 K* ~# V, p7 qSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
* e+ \. H# C1 T3 x* \. yLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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" C6 `+ d7 r1 Y7 n' K1 |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.( X" p: @- n" q7 D! V. U7 F/ C# `2 `
/ ?: O& ^" ~' c0 i! A"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.: o$ x$ W, O$ a7 Z; K9 L, ^1 ~8 G: m
& U+ R9 M. z5 X6 _' w) q"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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3 a2 J ?8 o' qHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.0 o1 G) h; Q) Z% L: |/ n+ m0 N! _
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.+ \, Q9 z1 X j5 Z2 i' V2 T' `
) ~ L+ A9 w0 U/ t' d8 eMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.% m0 ~- V! |. m) w
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.. U6 P$ @" J7 z& ]! r9 o
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