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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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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent3 z [' d- d0 J( u$ x" ?
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT- C8 f6 Y R, K9 C
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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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' [9 I( }- \* _$ \# Z"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.3 ]% @) p( j) [- O9 ]0 K4 k( s
/ C: A. b6 Y( z$ F"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."$ z5 l ]5 T0 i% n* |" I
; E- s7 W* e! X5 b- ?Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.7 n0 }/ ^/ W$ j, _' U
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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./ d" Q. P/ n4 p2 D# \
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) J, q S1 l) EKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.5 h0 t' ^9 U8 p# x7 G
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said./ c0 f& u* T3 f8 T* `9 A- x0 h
' Z/ z4 h; N$ Y% Z9 S# bClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.. ]+ g: z( g7 G. j. s9 _
7 _/ Z. o; d7 V! l7 F0 F[ 本帖最后由 醉酒当歌 于 2007-1-23 22:12 编辑 ] |
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