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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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4 p4 x+ L* r6 v) Q* T5 ^# _Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent$ e* w: n( g) E" D! @
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT9 ]' z/ V0 z" i
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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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+ w/ F+ o" F7 U& G5 ^, A"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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( O+ u1 r8 r9 N1 c- u' J"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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, I, W M3 V7 c6 i$ c0 e' Z, ]Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.' I U0 n2 G! q* T2 n
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.5 q3 e- h; N! k0 H
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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6 J! A+ E8 k1 T5 |* E. R+ rKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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" H! K. G8 N. h$ a( s"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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4 W7 O6 @* a" ^Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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