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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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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent8 C: N( K: O4 i+ Y4 A" `" I, F
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT) R& q. X, m. ~, `: \9 o
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/ Q% Z! @ M) B6 X; yAt 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.4 {) P G/ H3 @$ n. J
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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.: P( o# D5 r' W; Y
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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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7 B' w$ f' F. w; X% @Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent./ \: N0 O2 S5 K& Z* d( E1 G* G* \' m
K4 D8 c6 f7 A$ V( j) |3 j4 N) iBut 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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5 {' u9 T. I3 c/ _7 E' l! p, s% c IMcNaughton 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., j7 S7 L6 T6 O F; T
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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.$ w8 ?2 r0 d! O& q3 D1 @$ i3 K
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.- A. x# j3 ?$ k6 |0 I( T% B9 }& t8 d
4 \/ ^# ?2 _( M- HClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.: O9 L: U2 c8 h* x4 X* f" _
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