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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?+ h b' e& [5 r1 k! O2 j
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4 b& U0 G8 L; i6 j9 L2 dLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT; A4 M4 f( B0 F- p1 H
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' j9 a* Q( s. kAt 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., \3 n% _9 Q0 [+ `; U8 h1 d
% B4 s9 N6 d' t( t* a, F"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.2 O7 u/ R% ]5 ^
4 B# A/ Y, u: G" }$ s* ?0 I"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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: a) a( _- ?3 Q+ J: r- Q z+ fHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.1 N1 P8 t. a4 r
/ m2 ~! z% q* l% U }But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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: u$ Q" q0 z( r: r- `* CClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.6 c2 o4 ^# }8 u: N
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