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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?7 |( F# q3 d# x' Z$ g, p( x3 j
4 U+ p& v$ P. Z, z, [& ESellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
( L+ n! H1 s. `1 a7 ELast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT% y: `- a/ v! X! K B9 J; {+ r
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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.. F5 W4 g @9 A# g6 A$ E3 l2 C) O
$ `' B9 v2 g$ Q0 g2 L3 u: ]"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."' Z, Z5 S/ _8 ~0 E6 m8 r
6 ^! V7 r1 o- z7 W- j$ \" dHousing 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.8 D- k" I- ]2 k1 X+ u, E, s
7 `& F: x. U% D. q- p1 e; x7 vMcNaughton 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.2 Z7 o9 q& o1 l; y2 ~- k) R7 \
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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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0 d5 f3 k+ L4 v! p8 p8 T% `4 QClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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