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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
* Q; f+ H8 J& YLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT0 A" _7 d- J2 v `
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* `' B/ l) e' i- FAt 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., E4 Y0 D$ T, }8 L
$ [: a9 j+ l6 `, t' \' l"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.
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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."9 c" q( h5 S! n# j( W, U" [6 k9 M5 W
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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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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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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.: a( S* k- R, N0 }- \4 o
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' C, _9 A7 R* K2 [( _Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.# ?4 }% \8 C& o- k5 _
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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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