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\/ p- u" _# \: i5 ISellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
0 m3 n2 e$ S- E7 p0 q, KLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT, g( G; Y9 q+ Y' O
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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.
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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.$ w$ x0 U$ o$ R; O: |
' t; ?. T% r3 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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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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( A# ?4 ?- u1 z1 u2 D# p) LBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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3 ?$ \$ {0 o( I# ^! K) k! Z& d6 hMcNaughton 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.: U- a. n1 F5 W9 W
- q8 H! r' ]$ I; k5 D1 ?8 f, O1 L$ n+ i8 q"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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