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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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& ^ V1 G/ S. t6 \8 h# U+ wSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent! a% ~* a+ {8 D9 t" A# V* ?* U
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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! f, |6 R; d/ Y: l7 D) ^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.6 S% e* F y6 X; y( z
( m7 n6 w' d+ e0 [4 h"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.1 m" I$ h7 z9 n* s
& m. W* B; Z$ n3 t \8 l3 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."
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- _( [: | b4 T$ N: JHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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! J! z5 F, T! F) z. {0 pMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.; s, Y- r, S. @2 s7 |4 ?4 ^
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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" F! p" |3 C- |8 \. d1 S+ n' p( E"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.1 G( _9 {$ o! h3 v& Y* Z* r
* h7 W. r9 H3 A+ O: LClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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