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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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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent+ l) m1 {# K9 T6 K6 h
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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2 U7 k$ s* J4 j5 xAt 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.8 p6 Y0 G- c; U2 D4 L3 Z$ D# n$ z
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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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6 K. X, M9 r; 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."
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% A6 M+ a+ G8 l& L0 x/ L) R. {( THousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.' b1 G9 @ i) B) c, m7 W
) x) H( C5 P% L) y& tBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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0 k0 o. r% y# Z2 V' r; PMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.. N0 s, x8 {5 D% [' L; X' u
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said., C' g$ K7 Y- ~5 e
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