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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?& L" K' i$ M$ m% { w
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent1 a+ u; j- r T( {
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT+ o$ P8 ~% t, N4 }* r c0 c3 F
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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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* ?% C7 x4 F+ E"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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& [( m9 `. ^! J8 `4 ]/ C6 i B: z4 d"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 c: J% G% t% }# H7 A# }( \0 E
* q1 t" M& T7 I( G. U- |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.9 L! V" i5 s" j6 S
$ R1 [' B' @8 RBut 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.% Z2 g4 ?2 Q2 ?% x5 O; h
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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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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price." M+ q5 |6 |( w+ |% R. Q+ X
- l3 L8 z5 B2 k"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.& x: D4 s& m( k [' \; ?. ~; A2 u
, g; t: I- L4 kClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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