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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?- T4 J; B# t/ e2 {6 p4 ]: [
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent0 f( a- m. w- m- L
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT% D4 j) W$ o4 s7 T$ k n
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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.' P4 j) @; P. T' `3 }
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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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"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."2 J [% e. t) Z+ J. f D, W! K
m) p- U3 A% |/ X6 {) \Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.# C5 ^+ i2 O. J$ s; t
7 I3 d; i& Z. ?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.
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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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8 @+ f2 P. X( M9 h) b( m8 N3 DKevin 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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( ?( P) |8 j' T/ F, rClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.7 h1 z8 A- Q$ o& Y# n+ z, x
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