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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?0 ?! a' }( W1 R: p$ B' |# e
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
' C2 b/ D" r! GLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT- y1 z! w. ? z2 _
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( Y5 }: u9 u- n8 x' s' _/ `& r; cAt 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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" s# Z* w( ^5 @( |% k"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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' W# ?; }2 A; m! {& {"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."8 A r# [$ ?! L3 u# ^) v0 R
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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.1 f0 T# f% A- P
- `: V+ U9 F. EMcNaughton 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.9 X1 Y* i% e" d
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C* e& c7 i3 _; E; {, M0 h6 q0 TKevin 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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"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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