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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?6 t- @. o2 M& V# g! O0 u3 X
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent4 W0 K" L) o) k: C% g! h2 L) a
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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* G% m' m% o! i# l) {. u: tAt 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." `2 g" \7 \7 y/ L, l
" N+ M( R$ t, ^' V"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.% R. I/ N7 ~4 B' x7 |# h! O
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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."* J w4 ^8 }/ G4 q: `
- w/ y( V* d% f; \* E3 r: J( nHousing 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.7 a/ n6 p6 X) l: C/ U
* S: J) L# v& fBut 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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- z) ~0 E" H0 H' H" J+ ^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.8 c( [. g: Z* F3 w+ N
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6 r# y/ Y, @2 O, i: N; wKevin 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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) J7 H. ^8 Q" j- ^5 QClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.- [3 K: G* B9 l5 J) T0 P
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