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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+ J( n, ]8 f1 E
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT# O! `6 J3 F8 c- r+ O
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( t1 s5 V' J* r% wAt 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.* v2 S$ [% U+ c4 J1 y$ n+ k
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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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"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."2 X+ v( V5 R' A0 R9 L3 B
1 S" \' C0 A8 w" gHousing 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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( m+ i, m3 L8 Q- l. 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.' H4 f% R. T% U' J4 Y+ ~
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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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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.: g0 R, c+ V7 B) b
c+ F/ q7 r- X2 S"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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6 F5 V0 @ ^! C: m: f' EClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said." D" A& S! P& C; N7 V- j% w. s
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