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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?9 t) c- ?: q- l5 Q: d* R5 s
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
& M8 G% @) [! h: g1 eLast 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.
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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.$ D5 u# Z2 r$ P5 ^
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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."; z7 H ^3 ^( V% D- {
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.9 I; e) ^$ h6 n e" N& N
9 w l, i% w8 Y9 f( A3 `1 I" i3 {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.5 C. v& D0 s x. J* Z
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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.: c/ c F5 i) U5 D% `6 Q) w
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2 V0 r. @2 L7 n* }Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.4 ^& }3 N$ w) F2 ^$ F
0 j. t7 j+ M: G5 n+ z$ O* ^"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.- N' l2 n) B f; H N" m; P
. Y2 |+ q% }' N1 }' NClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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