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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 Q7 r# B" L" S; z" j& Q
# l! E8 z4 W" S; CSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
! d! ^/ [( S6 a! O/ d& vLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT& G, R) C7 d& y' ?
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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.) Y" W8 U7 L+ E. s/ v+ K. ?( ]
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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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9 G* `2 b6 W/ l# h$ x' ~, 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.". E/ }# b: o! h
8 k) e0 V8 [' S, q- p0 M7 nHousing 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./ J. x; L; F7 E Y& Y, Z* o9 e) V" \
& y% S; e* C. _1 A6 k5 C# P& ~& tBut 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.
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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.
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/ \/ v0 K! R6 X; \4 g, `! ["There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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3 m5 R3 W2 {5 K7 ^% fClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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