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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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* ~* `! g. \2 d5 f; z) uSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
% ?) }. H, R$ }5 cLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT, O) \$ Q3 d3 V8 L: h" p4 E. p
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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.
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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.: o9 b) U' s" K
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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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7 F( `7 t# |; b/ n# B- KHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent., V; }5 F$ ], g' \7 s! j
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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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+ r) Q; ?) g0 T, E% v! hMcNaughton 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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" ?; I% w+ m8 i. X8 E# u- x% H! \' R"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.) {- V+ z: O7 X/ z$ J
% V5 z2 }( p3 h( l9 cClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.. ]5 x/ I' ?" ]" A1 m, K
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