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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
1 y. Q) Y- o% r1 {9 _) F; {( ?: JLast 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.- t+ a+ E9 d. m# @) a8 ~1 z
) _, z( [# p$ M- n: E( c"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.* \; i8 [6 l: a
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"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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! A j/ d, k$ i, THousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.% J+ P. k+ A, f! ?
( I7 r: J5 Z% I1 F4 _9 o1 d9 a$ W+ jBut 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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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./ }7 Y& N1 r- ~% a
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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.
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9 _( L0 D3 P( }5 N( y3 o, ?"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.- r" E% [6 v, E' [8 }6 d
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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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