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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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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
# k8 q6 [" P2 C5 QLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT6 H; F; J5 [$ j: A/ a3 g8 \
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6 w( n" k8 E8 I7 pAt 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.: E1 p: ]. A% l/ [$ A
0 ~- G3 ^( y# \' v4 y: |"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. j# U; g- |/ s( Q2 b: y$ 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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) s% m" i$ E9 Z+ k( @Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.8 i+ Y$ b9 E6 }6 l* r" \% R
: l0 a1 g5 z0 I% s9 v, VMcNaughton 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./ S' F( B$ H2 ^' K* q6 A2 M3 \7 g; m
8 `$ I0 b! F* u"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said./ ]& ^# L) T( g3 }; z( k
* _" C3 b* L( ]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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