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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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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
: b5 o- a7 ^2 [) ?/ _( SLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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) z! A9 I% Q. z2 WAt 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 c0 e5 O$ j# }6 Z1 m0 F1 |; }
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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.
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$ d& `- \3 ]+ Y T( V" F1 j) Y"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."$ Z, e2 Q4 x' ~+ W8 G, j5 Z( k+ @
7 H/ H: M) q- Z! [2 b+ QHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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0 ]* H) E+ A( b7 ^/ a: |But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent." ]. E1 j6 S7 r: X! E
: F$ Y. ]" V( w3 J; @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.7 e) Z* F5 |+ W- N
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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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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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8 J) n# Y* o+ W- jClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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