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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?8 o# K/ p+ @; H$ g+ Z+ U4 f
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent9 m9 ?) j. l: A% L z8 d# B
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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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.3 y4 o: ]1 y/ H P) p5 \
E6 M. X: S. G! w"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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# U6 w7 G' L! ]% U" u6 ?" o" E"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."4 P' z8 m, |: M. C" j1 y
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.6 ^; m' n3 t7 h
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.* b# X$ }) e& _8 z: z7 K
. ^* L7 q0 m, v6 r& {) y1 k5 tMcNaughton 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.0 j7 r& _6 x7 j
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5 \2 g' K) z- O zKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.* a% w' k: J7 K$ ]% T% [
- h. T+ K% O( Y7 @% O0 M"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said./ ]* v c% ]: s4 ^% N' q/ D1 |, ~
. \' q; {; b; @1 zClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.! ?/ j8 P. g g! h+ ?$ J+ E( B6 T
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