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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?9 e3 Z7 }4 h# n' Z+ X) B% i0 r6 y
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent1 S* ^# K+ c1 Q: G
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT! F! G( ^; P# z
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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.
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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.": s; W0 M5 S x% c( }2 c+ u2 |7 S
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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.0 l G' V+ O9 N3 Q7 T
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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.! |4 z8 `! b' }1 _
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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.: Q! {; G( I8 D; @- V
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.5 s3 O0 b" h8 O' O" ~
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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. d. g& s. n4 Q. T& }' `
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