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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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) v0 R! M; {; m9 sSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent8 [ Y: [+ `; z" b6 R
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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1 P/ N, B7 s8 W* \6 eAt 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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"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.% q- k+ ^# R9 r% O% N1 I' ~
3 l: c8 ]1 ?& D6 p2 x9 f; Q, A"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."! M4 K Z7 T% v1 X ]; J4 e
/ `3 l u" w/ XHousing 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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: X* \) r' D' T$ ABut 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.* k# A5 ^* h9 F( U
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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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4 g E) p5 N) FKevin 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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# Q; T K5 }3 kClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.6 s% v6 t, T0 w4 i/ V
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