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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?3 T! E o" g! Y( n4 q
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent7 B& o1 A% a6 X9 M
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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! f2 L- I8 X7 a" D3 c/ QAt 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.! r4 }2 k0 j, W% _, s8 x3 r' O
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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.) A7 q* f- |/ N% G. H9 w, J
: c0 C k/ F1 F2 G; }- W& j"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."- _) u4 D1 ]8 Y7 d$ a8 n: N' Y) U
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.' y' K# a! \, e0 Z% O4 S+ Z. r! C7 g
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.; F# B. a1 i8 G
. ~; ]0 \2 V6 h4 U' MMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.! z$ E1 o8 H) Z' F" F c
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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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. N4 h y5 p* o* `"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.! u% b! n2 K6 w; ?1 ?9 H3 I) } q
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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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