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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" f6 T, b6 T5 _# p
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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"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.# |( |- ]1 f r! Q$ E, s& A2 x5 l
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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."' @4 Q& l% S p1 d& U! x
8 t3 q- v% Z! ^( ]# w- {Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.6 H, F8 B. c) `0 A2 {% s! F. K, [+ b1 g
5 v/ k' _, n- g& T4 `3 t# BBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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8 r2 w C# F% Y$ a; t5 O Z/ D; KMcNaughton 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.; J& [, [1 x& R6 v# T1 I5 v5 i
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& }; t, G- ~3 z0 P1 Z% L$ |7 nKevin 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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. D, z* h5 x- j3 W"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.) F* p+ y5 A- U" C0 s3 B
2 L6 o% O( _$ \/ HClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.* [* Y( S5 O) Q6 e! P/ A
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