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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?; p% s, `) y8 B" U) w" V. g
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
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* I3 e+ f. s; F3 Z3 MAt 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.1 q; R3 \& m: u; ^* ?5 t& }/ I
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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.: f$ l( K: R X3 A. {$ W' V( t- ^
4 A! ~$ U* J9 J2 C"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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; ^- \; M) M4 G9 l& U% \7 rHousing 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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7 @4 H% U* T W% m0 kMcNaughton 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.( K# C! X3 m7 M. E
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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.1 w7 X' J5 M: j' B* R
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.& \: D" e" ^; k0 S- d- P0 v
# L' p' w/ X* v! j/ MClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.( r# a! Z8 J b! G
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