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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?) g+ _5 E% ~9 `2 H H+ K$ n5 i+ Y
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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.
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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.) ] I. M* F5 r6 m% F6 L+ Z
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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."/ {) a/ k9 L) Z8 a4 n* {5 E# p
6 u/ O2 b- N. hHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.) l [! N5 r7 ]- N2 u- B
7 H; b1 e3 P0 y( cBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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. `3 O! d& H2 D- Q0 w$ E9 JMcNaughton 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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+ E1 [ e# C9 a7 WClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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