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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?4 V. C$ W5 q* D0 r. Z6 q1 M
/ C2 |8 f3 q( z+ P* u3 LSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
+ z% z0 p1 v6 n7 U8 _Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT6 E1 `- c. B) a7 ~+ V8 T
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$ @9 T1 F3 y* S$ g8 zAt 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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" c( \. ]2 y% H! i+ ^"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.9 Q) o% C' c% j0 L
+ u& K1 j6 ^0 P6 ?# v: J"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."- {! k8 T# r( W
/ L0 p% o9 _; L ]Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent. |6 u: C# R* @5 L/ A& H
. h3 ?/ s9 ]( jBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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3 l- f# { @) C* X- N& S8 }- K"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.- X0 P' _% T, B$ F% z; x: x4 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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