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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
1 ]: Q, M# |* K0 i }! f+ ILast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT9 {9 w7 w5 r4 F- q) S1 u. ~+ r8 ~5 G
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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.6 f, C$ Y; `! }! X+ D( p
- z! r$ ]9 ~8 a9 t7 h; @9 w"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.
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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.": z$ P: T p% a
K5 G8 X' a' m# R$ Q) e6 u2 b4 VHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.3 o7 W d" H2 a, I5 l
1 g6 N! I4 `9 k5 O- PBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices., Q7 ], Z4 \6 y
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' f. P$ E: G; LKevin 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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; T, v X: g) e! g1 l"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said." c0 P' c2 S! v' |! `, x
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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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