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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 agent
@6 z" b! d# qLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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: \% ]% e/ l" l- U: d( AAt 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.7 |8 ?( ^5 x( K6 w$ s6 |
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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./ q1 l" @& F0 s" }! ?* Z& K3 L
. a S" [ k3 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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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.( o, k# S- y4 R0 }
* |8 |0 N9 `; ^7 y, p& U' H* M" xMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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# I, i# k9 G' z/ m, H; WKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price., _, X i# r; J" E/ h: j1 B' U
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said. _1 f, K/ R6 F9 s& @$ G
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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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