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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?4 b8 t5 [# b9 y8 j, k; }, y
K: Q6 ?: M8 H3 @Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent6 \; _* Q( 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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"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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$ l- x {; b4 r5 N$ j5 Q4 t"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.". t5 I: R3 w. ]& [2 y5 g
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.* n: \% c+ C3 }" f
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.: g' ^/ F7 u* x z
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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3 B7 e2 F0 A8 C4 L( v) Y! BKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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% Y8 i! H$ Z5 MClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.& w8 K0 {0 W% r* R, V1 l- A
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