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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?  Q4 n5 r5 V- H( c% b # R9 t3 \  f* j9 Z9 v- I
 Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
 4 g3 s' c. _% l2 @$ u5 b" }Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT9 v. m. z' p4 ~9 q
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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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 ! \# \+ ^" U3 g" B4 _"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."
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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.5 K4 w4 p( q& E4 n
 
 9 e7 }6 ?( G" p6 e6 \( K0 gBut 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.$ D/ f7 M: z+ O! M, H
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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.+ E0 N; i5 W+ L6 w' b
 
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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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 "There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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