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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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3 D9 h1 }) p$ s4 g. dSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent) y `! r) f4 Q# o( E$ }4 h/ l
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) j; r" R; V5 C7 CAt 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.2 ?. F n" k; s, d4 E) G( u2 g
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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.+ u( i) K+ x0 C% m- l/ m# }/ Y3 {
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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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. q8 R3 x% F+ FHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.; p& C9 Y& z& B% q$ P* e
7 o& x* F/ z9 g* _' E$ ]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.3 B4 O; S V, J8 ^0 }' W5 I
8 S7 B: s% R; Q+ @. f% mMcNaughton 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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[" ?: [$ d1 O% m! q' J9 g; r- \# ^"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said./ {! T9 v/ n( A; d2 |
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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." L3 s \( C3 p1 B
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