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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 agent9 J) o- v( T U0 H; V
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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( r3 z" m8 U- U& a* k& yAt 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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8 w5 J# ?$ B" W O. R2 D7 C"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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! \+ B5 g6 c2 ^/ v"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."" \/ N; s. `% l7 t; ^7 Z3 S
& C# D- `$ Z) h2 J& d7 N9 HHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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F; |2 L* X0 p9 h! aMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.% g m8 f% o- ]% t; F6 F5 z
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.- q$ Y7 z$ |; {3 p/ F: k2 h$ a
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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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& P6 w, z9 l7 r9 sClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.- p- a1 d8 ^/ |$ P! {3 P9 z3 S
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