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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?( J3 b- M$ O9 B4 A1 X: ~+ [7 _/ }
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent G, x2 i+ c& J9 J
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT. w$ ]- K1 T% {0 `' z3 P
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2 w0 Y; C7 }( w, x' D) y! bAt 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.9 E" D! z7 m) H& @: @9 A
6 J0 H. @4 R- v0 S) ]1 `4 O% y* F2 r1 x"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."
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent. O/ D# w8 D/ S7 W3 [
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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, ?$ F7 v& E( c/ |* }! n3 P% {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.9 ?7 `& F' L; x
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, K6 h0 F/ l0 m1 m4 t) lKevin 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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3 o! U. z" T2 m! T8 R5 C; S8 y"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.* U3 d9 J6 D' k ]
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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.7 [' h3 c3 g- p( \- }
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