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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
5 w$ ?2 r" P Q' R7 e% tLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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) {9 J5 Q/ v; y- y/ O+ {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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$ `& b" H7 p) K: w: W# ], I) }* b5 G"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 ^" i7 f6 B5 D( D" Y
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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."" [& |, D( C: F$ s! _% s
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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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* e3 K# T+ X- v5 D& e* N; s- W- b1 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.: O% |+ c. O- G+ m) s( k
0 Z/ s8 T& @; Y7 ], `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.' c. R4 \4 O+ g5 y% _5 ]9 X
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- Q* V& E" o- W, `) t, Y" RKevin 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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5 |" d- c6 u! ~% d"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.) R& v" {4 G7 X4 F3 S4 j! i K! \ ?
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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.% [2 i- A6 a1 ]5 k) x2 k) j
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