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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?7 \7 g2 M3 s+ r
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent* h4 U. d+ H2 g+ M) h# D- F+ b( [' B
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT! d0 j3 X4 r `
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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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7 j% j, r2 J8 h* Q/ B"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.0 s! c! P7 ?0 B) 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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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.5 L& j" c; Z1 {8 T
$ x0 X! E4 f( F, ZBut 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.0 ~6 L7 S8 M$ m4 s
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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.% c6 k/ S7 x$ ~2 k0 R
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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.4 e. j' P% }5 K) R. ~( E& @8 T
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said./ `1 v0 D& |% Y4 i$ q
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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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