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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?1 g$ v& s) f' i( k+ }
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent1 I8 Z7 N, l1 M. T
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT# Y2 F9 m x4 d1 n( V9 n
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+ [8 F' ]( f2 u$ v2 CAt 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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$ _# l3 R: Y. l) I [5 u"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.' u" r% b8 o) V2 d: }) J8 A4 E
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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 a" }% N; s5 {- }! n" ?; VHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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+ l2 V( P7 {6 K- QBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.' U( E# |+ f' p3 r" k. ^0 F
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6 s0 p, P2 ?, Y6 `+ `( l+ XKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.* k. }+ i6 G- a
3 O$ c9 ^4 E: d"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.
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