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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?: x- ~, N5 M m& f2 @5 v
: @9 {3 n# L; v0 f* g' y+ g2 `7 }Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
8 k4 f E; Z! f% S; q2 DLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT6 h) k! T: u6 l5 S1 ]2 O9 k" T
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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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, ]2 Z! ^4 g4 p/ y- [+ R+ o"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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H2 Y0 U4 Q/ O. Q4 @% b"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 $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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; A. E. o( L8 KBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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& C% S5 S( b; h4 P& m- ]McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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4 S, t! z0 }7 c1 z. \* B3 D, g, w- V) C2 j"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.0 j$ z- Q0 J- d3 c5 C! c M
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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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