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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?$ v( S9 w7 T+ L" j9 M0 ~1 ^0 O
/ R4 {8 M1 a& {+ |3 t1 e9 c# ?Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent# k: o* }& y7 R2 u1 t$ c- j
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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5 f3 A6 _5 i5 QAt 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.* m# e5 @" X6 a+ g. |
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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.1 Z9 y; b5 z) A4 C) W9 T! L. m1 @4 @
# j1 B- U0 V0 Z3 M/ k I' u+ \"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."
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' L: _' g# @) O0 i+ u" H1 v/ YHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.; K$ \2 W* x. W+ a: R
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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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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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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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+ N8 [6 o2 E3 `5 S8 x"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said. c( e) n. E) T" y# B
9 q8 U. l7 `) U C1 I, V# y2 C$ sClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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