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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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$ `7 D: W! e+ s7 a# XSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
$ ]. N5 c9 C. t, zLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT+ ]" s6 c0 `% ]" `/ s
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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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" H9 K) l) k! y& C# V- q; ?"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.5 [# r" v2 ~! ?( r% ^0 _
5 r& |. ^1 ]; ?" p"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. Q& J5 q( D0 s8 K; [8 dHousing 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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: F( b2 i& M4 b, \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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0 W" v6 T: c, X: R& m3 `# |/ nKevin 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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- L! E3 Q% A/ c; n( W; W# xClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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