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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?9 {9 h+ A+ Y/ z. \
& _# d! P4 Y2 W/ O4 J1 Y% ?Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
4 Z5 q% m% D5 ~Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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9 k' [5 \1 c8 n: w, Z, OAt 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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; X) ]) l5 p |' i"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."
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.' t1 H }- W' y) w5 r3 W4 v# C
! I8 C- T( ~ B: u% M' ]) P. Q5 R& g! sBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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9 t8 B* v3 Q* vMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.9 s% }+ A- y: v8 ^! A
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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j [! x$ @4 S! }* k5 a4 o"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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7 `/ X) j, J l! W' @$ f: o7 X6 XClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said., p" C0 h' O: B+ {( E& ?# d
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