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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?/ k5 Z1 W) D' n4 x% r. l; ~
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent0 R( m+ L/ O; v0 ^. x% A% t
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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; \2 u. X: h1 x0 uAt 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.9 v2 V& {, f$ Z1 r+ S" R
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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., K+ }1 w. c/ ~ j% f0 f8 a
+ x/ L) \: I9 L' a2 s) X"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."* E& e' g9 Z# R
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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./ |5 p! V0 ?% {
% L4 ^" [/ z; M2 G, QMcNaughton 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.3 Z3 }5 h5 F2 |; p0 {' k/ S
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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.0 O. e- p' ^. ]0 W- |0 S
5 [+ O: ]3 P* F" l8 R/ B5 j"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.% H5 ?. M7 J( S5 I
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