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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?, y0 n: K) W- ? Y$ D
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent7 Q7 d$ i$ O @7 ]2 e
Last 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.
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+ J% T5 i( k$ }5 s9 ~"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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"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."( i: s3 Z/ t2 ]" {0 o
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.4 `$ w J1 y T& R1 q9 e' A6 M9 `
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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.; c' w$ }8 y2 c8 r9 m
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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 @4 i# _9 r% g4 Q! j' y"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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- n& z/ v; e+ V* R7 u! E9 wClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.2 P6 [! ^! S% a+ w! |: J$ c
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