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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?. E/ H9 j" R7 S9 _
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent# e1 J' I3 y$ D7 ], c- s
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT7 {, I, s: ?8 Z
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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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: q( J/ Y( z4 q2 j/ D"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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9 B$ Q4 z1 W3 _# S! w9 Q"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."$ l6 q% `" f. ~6 J1 Q, d" M8 t
7 \& M" s$ f5 j1 t0 BHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.2 s! y$ W7 F0 y
% _0 L. |& O; ^- {1 D' KMcNaughton 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.
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* q* W6 H5 z" C( v$ H' c. LClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.. s9 D& D, [- ]( f0 _
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