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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
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$ ?) {: i9 G/ W$ x9 C8 {, DAt 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.8 L3 n* _+ P8 D5 ~
y! f' B8 g( q& _"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.( z1 j8 s* _' |& g, j
4 \ b9 m" {" n6 i1 K" W C"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.") u" h0 I4 G# O3 S: i
3 d0 ^( u6 I) UHousing 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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& r, Y0 b" a. e, R2 @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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/ R2 f4 H' q2 [; D5 z2 q. \Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.# ?( z5 N" v' S7 ]. v" ]
7 T8 W1 i9 m8 Y9 L7 i. W% o- s/ @"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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