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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?2 u" G; B5 l/ M) W z: x4 `
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent# H7 R* m2 F0 J9 M( @7 b
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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% j( W! ~3 l% D+ IAt 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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"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.# N/ X* q4 n& R9 D
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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.
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+ W/ _/ {9 n# N# sKevin 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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7 r* }9 F! n, o) a' `"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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. f' A! J1 A# O1 Z! H6 U0 u! i, i8 GClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said., @& K6 q: B# o8 k8 c" S3 T* v
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