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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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9 Y' R% r4 s# lSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent( I6 u7 |; H R; T# d
Last 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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# a& b2 [* d* a; c: H; i* K6 D; E, L"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.* L1 G' H) y! p. P
7 j* }5 T9 n @' b"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."* i Q! E( [1 @0 Q0 _: S% w
+ _) i o: S7 eHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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% H8 d$ @% M7 p" @; [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.
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! N) }$ v, [7 a4 p- _% H7 f2 x+ iKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.5 l' ~ Y( l1 C( D
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.- V: ?3 [8 b1 w& q* {. [
0 q4 `. v5 ^8 m- b# XClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said." r6 H: O7 K, x O
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