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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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8 k5 |6 R4 A P$ d0 |$ ZSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent/ ~$ q+ ^+ t5 S2 ?- [% g4 [
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.1 w! [3 ~- G, ~5 L9 F5 m
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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.$ l3 b3 C* q% ]8 _
0 c& j3 w W* ^% D8 |% O, s, t"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."4 x8 d/ R9 M* ?' o5 {2 K
; s* q# j i* NHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.1 f! o% n. B0 F; V+ l5 r
, v: z- {; ~$ }' P7 V( k, v" ]- \$ o"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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1 J1 E! x6 F. ^+ ?" `Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.+ w1 d# U% z) J& n* [7 U; g
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