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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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0 G8 x' s3 n) `+ |Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent h3 m" J/ [) g A$ C
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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( W$ e& k: L. {3 z& h"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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3 A# L# Q2 l) M5 u* r% I"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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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.6 r8 O- M0 T* K0 L2 [! [8 O& I
. Z& Y S4 E1 ?) i4 X8 YBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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- w/ p1 n4 @6 |McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.- k7 B8 D b, [* R$ j0 l/ B- 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.2 |# f: T2 w8 N+ n* D
1 G* K8 s, r3 g"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.( {9 U, X: K3 w& X5 K( g
9 d3 @) c# F _& \" l4 _& w9 XClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.( T& y+ v2 M9 B D0 l7 F" j' q' ~
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