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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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! I' _1 s7 ~* _- _Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent; Y+ k. {$ b4 W$ z# ^3 f2 ]
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT& @6 e3 a: Z( ~5 {( r7 y
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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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# o0 M: u# I' \& |* ^$ V; T"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.! o* J/ b/ i% D4 l& o8 H3 H7 J
T; j( P6 D9 {6 x/ s" \6 }"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."
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2 T6 V) @; G% @+ S+ eHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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2 q: u7 m, N0 W2 U" `8 PBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.- o: X5 m5 d- g$ Q* `
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$ c5 M! o8 D3 |) ?, }" l, ` u3 DKevin 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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p$ L; R# A2 S3 A' G7 f5 B) J"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.- I, s# {4 Z8 D
: `: q/ W: Y4 WClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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