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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?$ a1 B, }0 k# m1 g
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Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT0 l9 D: t8 A- h: T2 n
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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.
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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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) [3 \) i4 |# p& m/ n- I"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."4 A% c7 n c" m! V
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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) ^( s; D1 }- A- w$ q8 }- QBut 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.
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4 m0 b7 _; O1 P2 [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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: `4 t. |7 | m"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.2 [& o& o. r, O( L7 Z6 t! h8 I
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