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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?+ }/ B- x( i& n8 x/ O' h6 G& \" s3 C
+ H8 v! f3 J+ M" [1 H6 h( r5 H/ gSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent6 s- T; w" v$ |& X
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT- j+ s+ I# W* r
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4 l% _3 [5 C; Q" G, mAt 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.! z+ H3 F* u- |. Q
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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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0 [: _8 ]8 T% t1 h6 o5 V"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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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.8 f, F5 ^0 ?+ s0 y
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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.& Z* B. M; M* |0 t0 Y5 Z% H. i" w
2 c7 u" f! t& ^# }. WMcNaughton 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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) q+ D2 ~* w4 E' l, \ m"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.) y. {8 l1 V/ u3 d( h: G
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