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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?3 f$ u v( X3 z4 d2 s. b
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
$ V4 x, t& r5 a- r) {Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT- v3 l; b, X" n0 U, x$ T, i
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+ C, p% Q% o- C* \- ZAt 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.0 ^# u' o- y! t) P- [+ S6 n
( y; G7 A( R2 [' T) K2 Y; g% V+ |"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." u$ S- X1 `* k* w
- y/ D$ e S4 L3 w3 ]! d"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."4 j3 x% P6 H3 ~& x0 t. |
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.' O4 W0 s) G- P" P
2 x. B3 {" h1 M" Z# T% W. wBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.: R, z# L5 B# b* G, p
1 L7 m* o* }: d% z6 [1 \McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.' m6 ~7 ?( r7 U! m
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+ v' h( i/ }8 H; E4 ?7 Q( c& ZKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.5 }+ a/ P! s" w- k! l0 U
2 M2 e# w5 |; t$ W. F p( N, X"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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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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