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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?* I5 c R' E' E' R
& t; L- m, \. `7 ]5 }Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
; E2 ?6 m$ u) _: a: t1 ?0 rLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT6 D3 b3 T: X8 j; [- s4 G! J7 F9 ?
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5 g ^/ Y3 r" G. O8 I; YAt 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.: B+ g- W o5 e! f7 k( n1 {
* E( @0 ]4 I# Z/ t$ G"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.6 y5 y9 q7 b* s* e4 m7 }) U
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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."
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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0 e) R7 u. R* T) [5 _ `. b+ `/ TBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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+ P q+ M- K0 R' D; y( s: hMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.# O2 N# d* j& l7 `: O9 f
3 X3 G# @: _( V( Y- \# Y"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.- y; Y k% c/ I( N& R4 i$ I; ?: n+ H
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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.( C8 Z% j( D/ ^9 ~1 n; N
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