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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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7 C8 a% h" w' SSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent1 i) F6 \8 i7 z5 {" K4 K
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT3 Q$ J2 S2 F; E/ T" V- g
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; F& l2 c" j8 s* \. h1 hAt 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.- K! Y6 S. i9 b0 }
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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.+ }$ o( v5 t8 _- ^4 ?7 J
4 h6 U2 F; P* T* P( 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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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.
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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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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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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.4 O0 f- j1 l; s
$ o* s7 f1 n% s- u6 }1 l8 f" KClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said./ P$ t3 O1 n7 t
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