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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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6 k" e; l/ A$ {Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent, e2 [7 C! T* E
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.) M4 S5 C" M5 j- [9 b$ i
2 \2 k, N6 I" O7 o2 |"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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"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."0 x8 h; ]6 H( \* B+ \% ~
" C7 r5 h/ g7 s+ ^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., A7 {% ?; c+ I
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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.
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1 j# U9 n7 A7 Q# zKevin 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.; M# }0 p) \' A* P2 y# p
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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.6 e/ Y* X5 W b3 n
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