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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) P8 I8 A0 L/ J8 y6 b+ i6 A9 k
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT% e: h/ S+ {9 \5 ]" L" k9 H. h
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! T+ w) ^ i$ }* n* xAt 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.) I- y2 u) K. J: P! e
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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.
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# g0 P. Y4 J' A, k9 n"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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' X' m3 _- G, I6 p% q, E5 r5 ~; xHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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# c$ j: }4 ~( `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.; M$ @ _# _/ u. ^/ d
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! C' e7 ?! J* X) } M5 gKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.: F& o) n# C. p) C7 A8 n& X' D
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said. N: p: h" R( m- y
" o' n, ^0 y6 P! t9 QClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said./ |0 p* _' Q8 H6 M0 c# o3 p4 y
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