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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?! q' v- a1 B1 y% x1 C8 \
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
* @8 [3 L' ?+ G3 i: p& CLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT$ J; w w) C1 w1 h0 }/ ~: g4 x! i
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0 e5 l! B+ ^- G+ V; @5 B( |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.
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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.; K, W0 F$ E$ x' n% U: O6 t
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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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0 R2 V" h C) X5 w1 U w, ?Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent. @. {. Z/ K/ H' X, `
/ a" o, F% _: ~McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.0 ^, y- M, T( E2 s' E. ^; A
" e" |% |% e/ V ?) U v"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.# M4 t( F+ Y$ l9 K9 L
6 a+ Q& J& \8 z1 V: `Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.4 ~; U8 H) {: N% F. ?! b+ k
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