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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?) B3 x1 D" r- _6 o+ j$ c6 B( q
& z2 r$ f+ _* ~/ R# s/ PSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent& w- L" m8 T/ N2 g3 c% D) j
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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4 X; `2 U& j7 p! d+ H7 M' Q0 k5 |"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."5 g3 s( F5 _: f- m. S
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.) c- \* [+ m( B. M! ^1 M. T" w! ]5 S
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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+ w. y" s' ]' _McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.4 s0 R5 V2 M* d9 Z1 `6 C
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price., o2 _, x A. U2 O
' n/ y/ k# B9 x1 y- f) K6 X"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said./ W6 Z1 y% W" _
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Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said." ]& C; `$ F) t) C: Z t
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