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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?; e, l- |1 Z9 O( k2 N
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent& ]7 ]& @3 d7 S2 u5 j
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT4 |! G! i0 g }
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8 W+ ]5 q! Z) m' p2 N% DAt 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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"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.& M: D+ I! P E- U) J
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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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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.2 t% u/ f5 N" H7 u1 B
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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: f) g' U$ ^4 ]) ]9 S, k' J3 h {) PKevin 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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$ B$ ], G2 ~' K! Z+ v! H"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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9 k9 a6 L1 U1 o. S) U; nClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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