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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? `5 y; q9 Q% N* S$ s
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent/ d2 N: j4 R1 `! }" x2 G+ r
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT7 v) N! }' ~5 _2 _$ _& w
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" s2 p; @; V% q6 T& HAt 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.7 |, Q* ?: j6 m$ _# S- O
q- u! v3 o& [% k"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./ j. U2 _3 s! h0 ?5 S
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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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7 t" j J, I1 q# H8 _3 r1 B9 rHousing 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.
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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.
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" C" B/ x) q4 y+ o"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.) f2 h7 Q, G; \. q, [) q' y+ M
+ T" R* v9 R' m7 \. Q% IClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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