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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?# m: W* s4 C3 j5 k6 s; F
% F" d. }! L$ i7 m, i; QSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent- a4 }7 \2 A7 I. o. L
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT+ T& x& e# F6 c
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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.7 i# Q) `; V, R4 B& d! i$ e
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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.* [- X" J) J$ P. n
" [8 U* |; d6 I$ N1 }1 m6 ]3 X8 D"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.( {+ P# c8 V# L
u4 n3 B6 k: H3 M0 qBut 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.3 d: o+ f6 C6 s, i2 v8 Z- ^. n' u
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9 C9 i! |& D( a8 H0 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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9 L5 L R2 w: S/ n"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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& s5 w# C* w* u1 ]; r1 q1 X6 a6 nClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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