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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 Q! ]1 N/ Y1 j
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent u% Q9 m: Y* ?& N* Q& r. \
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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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.8 B$ ?" e; @- U: o: O- b" ?8 o9 L
' p% G9 I+ _3 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.4 t. |: J# H& s- s8 n9 G
$ c' ?* G+ o9 n( T"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."+ k% z2 a1 k9 k2 H5 e) N
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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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2 P- O2 S) ^6 H p/ m& OBut 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.9 e. [3 {9 D3 t+ a. z
; B7 d! ~9 |! I0 X1 @' J4 Y f( o: g3 vMcNaughton 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 c; J7 z6 N/ l' t6 ?8 E
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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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( U0 o/ ^6 J7 Z) v"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.: x- K5 C4 p6 U8 `1 n+ f
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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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