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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?5 `( L! V8 r: R" U- ?3 W. y- M2 Q& z& K
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
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( v- F8 g2 r9 i: w9 QAt 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.- D) p" D# m- F7 Q! _7 K8 \* d
, m4 j( l& p, u" I"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.! ~ o1 a N; i
' N3 A3 I5 |4 g"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."! l6 E8 A/ Y. f0 K* _
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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.7 a7 B5 S5 ` P0 B. \
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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.4 @4 E! Z* ]: n& w% @& f, x+ ]
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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./ f( Z5 l( X/ D0 a
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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.- Q# G' t; h2 C& V" S8 R
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.; A+ {. b+ d- z" S# M
. I" q3 o6 L' E8 }0 a4 D0 WClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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