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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?: T' i6 m) w5 ?3 u1 ?
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent7 b( O/ H1 P+ P2 W6 n
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT2 H8 s) A7 D: A6 w
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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./ s3 k& t# j( s3 j
6 z( L2 g7 R# i$ C; w* |"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 $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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0 T, x( q7 q# uBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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& p, x+ @$ R6 j. e% ?9 cMcNaughton 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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. `1 o, O$ x4 q; d# [/ W! KKevin 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." E K" j0 s' @
% K* s0 E7 O% L* l% x8 JClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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