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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) d& B! e" K5 P! _. o% ~+ G
( V- ^" |# N, w+ Q% `5 ^0 |* w' u0 iSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent% s# i) L$ W& L2 [
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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, d) e) ^$ o8 J! I& m"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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8 _3 G3 |3 G! r# n" i"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 J4 u% _1 o$ g) g% U0 e& C3 Y
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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: t( d$ M0 z$ A0 J. A5 AMcNaughton 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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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.1 v* o8 d' Q4 ]9 j
, G# i5 e _, d+ N5 i# R3 x"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.& f9 H; C! _& A6 O1 L
3 W' l. w4 V0 c! E" H; M& rClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.; H7 H! g: m5 |" l
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