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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
5 W3 U) N: ]% o# ALast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT- ]) g) i" S4 k# w
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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.6 L& V# x4 s+ V5 |1 v% g
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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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"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.", D3 k. `7 f+ }2 K3 W
" ~# f! _1 q& A0 R6 [Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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4 y' ?- J5 A0 K) DBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent." }6 y( l9 t# m: m7 a# I$ m. Y) L4 y0 m
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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.* @) U9 b; V* g; P! {# }6 n/ j3 t
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# k/ k& z: @9 S9 u- \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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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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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.
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