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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
- O, ^! X! _1 b/ GLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT! I* X" ?9 ^) x" u
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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.6 A! x, h. C& F4 w* F7 q
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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.; y7 w; p. e: j, l& W
( M; R. f" v7 Z8 w; u* h4 k# ^"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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- S" [9 E. e' k7 y& W5 hHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.7 O6 b* `! ?. F0 ], }: J3 m7 E0 m
5 _3 j5 s$ `& k4 c/ O- `, q; T+ |7 mBut 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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6 w" N4 ^2 Z; J- Y5 QMcNaughton 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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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.$ J8 k" M1 [- T( d, D. Z
1 {8 S2 k: k, C, i7 k6 ?0 V! F"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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