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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?4 L+ N# j8 [0 t) R
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: a5 H$ }- h7 O; e2 wLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT( U, X% ^) B3 l w( y; D0 b
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+ S2 C( C( D" gAt 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.' n& v8 r# F3 [" N$ f" ]3 T
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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.! t' r p& u' w5 s
0 x0 H4 n# V2 w6 J* ?"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."0 D4 b+ C4 Y5 \% Z
6 Z9 W' F: ]+ s2 T4 M# j x( aHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent., n5 J5 |' b0 t9 J5 u
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.& r7 R* B8 r" p( E8 n' [# ~7 n; X
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" s% O6 p; X) k4 f D5 c7 H E s* BKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.' n* L# s) O1 [; z4 q/ k6 Q9 z
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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0 r2 ^% g+ }: M$ E. h: j- G( `* g1 RClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.' A4 l2 d! D: {! d, w+ \* R Z; j
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