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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? e# y" Z& o4 q* _* A
, ^* i; b9 ]; r) F2 _2 L' ]) L$ iSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent( j8 ~3 J# ^$ k0 e3 Y 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.$ m0 H1 m- b8 v4 _
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"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., O: N+ d _2 j% e5 e4 }" @
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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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" x D8 f! J0 GHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.6 A5 i; I# T3 c! ?0 z6 C
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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9 G3 x @2 a0 Y9 JKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.# [& ~. D( @2 Z/ w! [
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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, V+ z$ r" O1 k% l( o; ]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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