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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?( s: b+ P8 B$ Q! k
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent9 i& s$ @' U+ i2 D3 B
Last 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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"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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"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."1 G, B& J4 B- ?( |
4 ^( V3 v8 ]# w( c; D4 \5 b1 M5 K% GHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.7 R+ c! l6 ^/ g: O( |
9 C" D5 o* X YBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent./ D! _ A* y5 b/ w
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.: X9 y/ d0 }+ d$ I o, r5 p
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# u: @- I. V) cKevin 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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/ ?6 Z$ A' i: U g"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.2 U8 i5 J+ o0 r/ p9 e$ _$ u
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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.* a6 M; \) u6 J
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