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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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$ h( ]$ ]$ G: Q9 K3 ]9 O, h* JSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
( o3 F: \$ o1 y9 h2 \* }Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT! @( t8 |+ P ^ o
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At 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.
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; Y: w) S" Y( j$ ~8 w"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.. F9 J) z( x# U9 l* N/ H
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"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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N, k2 s8 Y$ [Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.% T. X1 X8 J Z$ w& n* ]
~. v3 K) C l- q' [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.% K Q+ N b& M' Y5 m. Y
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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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+ O" e% y% n% \/ T7 B' I% o- H$ u# O3 yKevin 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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' [7 g3 F, N+ R# o5 x* s9 q"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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9 U, k0 m. t( @7 S) G( A0 Y& U. S8 aClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.5 a6 C* I. D, t2 W
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