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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
: ^ R! z* b# w' VLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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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.* K: H# o/ R8 _6 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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8 ^2 g+ o1 R$ N* m4 V2 y: m& h"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."8 C E' S/ n" ~; I1 U3 ]
8 h3 {% }. `" y9 ^, UHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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. U- K7 k0 D/ dBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.: I r9 G" m& `" `
7 C" ~0 Q0 [! jMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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/ x$ {5 ^7 n/ K8 R/ ~* mClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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