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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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# J- }. r. D ]9 I8 n7 HSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent- j4 V" Z3 I/ D) `* o/ C2 f6 U
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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. D7 W8 x, e) Q; }; y, nAt 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.3 M7 E) z( s' w5 t
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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." \! t3 j1 l( n- J% h
3 Y6 K6 T1 i# I5 `3 O"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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' y$ p' w' ^4 D. V0 CHousing 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.* s( U4 L/ _7 _& B
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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.
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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.- A% ^. n6 W. ~
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5 r# l1 m% P" y, {4 ^1 ~, u/ f! [Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.8 S; X( u9 D! [, N
! k4 p7 S* l8 u0 b- x9 u% |1 {"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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% ]5 J6 P0 [' m, 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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