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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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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
; L, ~5 ?; h6 qLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
# L0 B/ o" d2 k( zCBC News
8 U9 C" r& S( f4 h( dAt 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.
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& c7 ~: d J0 W"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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9 y. }7 j4 d0 [% A/ qHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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, s) \% M6 b' E- h8 w2 \& WBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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( l* P( ~2 T- v2 ~McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.& X0 O0 \, Y( i( |( f
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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5 V3 U q( o* z$ |5 u1 `, | J"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said., C+ Q' B3 |* P R. ]8 |/ R8 c
$ S/ y, H Y& u2 k+ M3 CClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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