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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?5 n8 |/ z4 b# }4 ]) |* I4 j
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent ? l% V& i% [& Z% v7 y
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT) S5 b9 T) q- q2 Q
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# e1 |, f8 b5 _/ U7 NAt 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.6 m+ f. z$ Q% Y3 c* r6 U
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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.- H. A8 B t8 t+ b0 Q3 o* n. `: o# [
- ]1 y0 K- T+ f; E$ r5 N: 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."% U" c4 {6 K% y+ g Q1 N$ k, E0 _& t
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.% t7 L& r( A7 [, z
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.7 I, s3 O) Y+ s3 Y7 U
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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2 R' @, g: x$ |' q* t: J6 S"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said." v8 |. L& U: j0 J( g
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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.! E1 L# `4 w; K) D( o7 }4 ]
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