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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? I' a. D6 j) }/ k
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2 I4 C0 \7 b5 M; b0 I; V, @Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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$ Z W" _/ I$ WAt 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.- X1 N5 u' a. C8 F ?
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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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" D1 Q3 y' ?( U" c, E/ F6 J3 }& y"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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( u6 x- h1 T6 t4 u' C5 N! ZBut 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./ H! K1 C6 U6 b7 J, V
, O4 Q: ? i2 T2 t P: K9 b% ]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.
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7 Q* c) G \- d0 ~6 O# ["There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.. d0 f" A% @: b, F* f5 m! O- T
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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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