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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 agent) p) B5 `' A6 a. B
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT2 f; l9 K$ G' }5 t1 Y' \# b
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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.2 L' j6 I; ^: y
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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. a& G4 D7 |% n/ u$ h" X8 m
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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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8 u( a0 n6 Z1 b( P5 y, g; a3 Y6 P2 |Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent./ S0 o& j8 K/ [7 T( L
5 l8 F; m1 d- T1 l. yMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.# N5 m* I- J: E* u
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.- @- F/ S7 Q @/ _$ g& q6 y
0 B2 ~5 F! D% _" l6 C"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.
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