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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?, C' M% ^; o2 `' ?8 T
1 a$ ^" R( q, iSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent2 m. U+ Z7 |! O# |+ J1 t2 @
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.7 [# R" ?( S- G* l 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.
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' i) m2 e$ ^: ^ R9 X R5 f$ q"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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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.0 m& J& a$ e! K9 j
" L6 l) w2 j5 L4 S! r* s. IBut 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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2 Y5 c o# P2 l7 e8 M$ t1 @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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! r; g/ S, ?/ U" Y) m* } pKevin 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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, B4 ~/ n& C4 e, s6 F& }"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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. Y4 s7 J0 W8 b* O# ^1 gClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said./ P" R/ ~0 M$ P6 ]9 f, K
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