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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?$ A; q) V5 L/ m6 T6 i+ \4 J
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
/ U8 x. G6 `6 M2 n" c! {- c6 t8 OLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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2 _, ^6 ?& _+ ]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.! f* A6 n; K7 k' Q4 B2 i
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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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! I( @) c2 ]4 v. h% x' I' @"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.
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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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% |# [9 `2 @* U7 G jMcNaughton 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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6 S' h2 c* k7 M* ?3 ~1 AKevin 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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4 Z5 ~( z6 g' O3 u. |6 E* R4 U"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.2 x% \9 r! {! I, e
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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.( H& E# X8 q6 _; P2 x. u! G0 x
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