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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 agent5 y& ~7 [- ~2 A2 ]
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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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.! ~/ Z. v. {/ A8 N
i. `1 b; X ~/ }* a5 _# n"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."- y0 }* U& \; i2 j$ f* w
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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.: L7 c4 B2 c( I
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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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" s7 s+ ?8 Z, H6 ?6 fKevin 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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, u' S4 I% C c4 b" I"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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& I" Z5 G8 y9 KClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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