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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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$ `5 I4 T7 c% U% R: ^) K; zSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent# A5 X# i) G1 W, O
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT) E% ^/ O5 L0 `6 A& i# O/ N
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8 M; m: b3 ^$ ^$ c% c5 \) V% Y [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.5 Q$ d1 A( S" }; n, e. W# }+ g# b
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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."9 I/ N% o; P3 h
* G. G0 m6 Q/ e0 {* CHousing 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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' [0 Y* }! h* q+ j3 JBut 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.( ]. e7 z Q8 L; H1 v
, h8 O6 F4 c0 i. u1 c6 o6 I8 d) R3 KMcNaughton 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.* ^% O4 u6 ^8 F* i! R8 L
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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.; P) j8 t, D9 m! t/ D
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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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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