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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? * k% F& r) `7 z; \
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 - h# x3 J  D7 O- I1 N  LLast 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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 5 i) Q( \' H7 F! C2 R"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.  @. ?3 k, X: T1 m
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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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 7 @8 ~( e, P' }8 K6 _  mHousing 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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 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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 * B& M) V! a% m! E* a) v: ZKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.: e4 a! Y' A0 Y
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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.: h* {+ m! Q! M' ?5 h
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