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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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: W( Y( Y9 Q4 e, u( m/ F0 I! xSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
1 I* y' u3 b; R) m. B- kLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT! b3 l- _7 N7 V$ R, o* Z- T
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2 a7 z( s) p4 [4 R; SAt 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 g8 r- x$ a. n% y
% [1 U# k: j' { W( o7 V8 x"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.2 L5 j! z$ }* d# m) T% s& y
3 a: ]9 m$ `7 n"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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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.$ X, |4 p' |+ m
/ R# g, J/ w, NBut 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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4 X& o' @! ?/ B) q3 K% r- v" ]- tMcNaughton 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.& B5 X5 [0 O2 U2 m0 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./ b7 o5 a! Y) v$ v. m
P) E. s( n: [6 P; e& d6 x"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.; |4 {: i6 o; `6 u+ C& t8 g8 g
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