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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?
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/ I, @, [1 x. N2 Z1 U' uSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent: P7 m3 B c u/ W
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.+ P' A4 ]7 T. q
9 P, _& N" t" r+ y+ a0 L"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.) W$ n- N, T3 E( X b
2 k1 x9 o7 L2 P. Y& O"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."4 U7 L9 v- [" o! |; I- S7 r) V# ^5 c+ m
# _$ z3 W5 t4 @Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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& g) d% o0 Q% j5 ^; ~But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.! f" N% G }' J& v: E
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.6 x5 F8 b" s) j0 D0 j5 M# B% y
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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+ s8 J. r% w* f: |# n4 ]) j"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.' `3 f! Q C6 e$ S8 v2 q& Y& G" a
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Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.: L3 v5 F1 ?( t7 p0 i2 r, x
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