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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?+ X0 m* f3 z8 m4 t9 i3 @9 l
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Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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/ g7 c8 u( |6 b) M/ ^1 B C. fAt 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.& s' r m' ]5 r& g
0 i, [7 O8 ?1 j; T"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.# x' @+ [; ]6 r. {
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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."$ q8 V3 N7 O! x/ R
4 v3 |4 V% E! p5 {& p6 S& y0 ^9 m0 eHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.) e3 w n2 Q. e
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.( l Q; B- p$ S- e
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