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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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1 X) R, Q+ g, \! R8 Z8 y# u! k2 oSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
4 x: a% ]9 r$ cLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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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.7 T% y+ y+ @. {( }8 n* v
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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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" t7 m/ H$ e7 q4 G5 ^"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."# U& [$ E# w# T
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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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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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) ` K- G. h! @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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+ }) K6 _/ a8 |' M& d4 ?2 x! \Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.: P. v& g1 g# \1 i3 r4 Z
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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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) E D0 O+ v3 ^ fClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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