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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?9 M8 Z5 ^! f! P p/ l( w9 o$ g
( `+ F' b3 @# F. K2 B% \Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent3 i$ j$ z( o! h" b3 W: T! l
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT1 ^# E9 r6 ?$ F' Z3 x' J
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+ e( b% K6 R. oAt 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.9 p, q) ^' \- w
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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.. J: r6 d$ r/ m0 w/ r' R
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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.- W r, s" @. s3 {& a6 i o! X! f
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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.& k1 H/ C" ^# N, u
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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.
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. `1 C, O8 X+ j7 p4 q0 dKevin 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.2 C. l, D3 M4 ~( V- O' E0 E/ U
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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.
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