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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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Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT. E8 e. g& ~+ k% S0 `: l n& U
CBC News
) C+ u, e$ F; B! O, P8 |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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2 o- D; R8 L. w/ C7 ]4 i$ Y) k"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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9 g1 i' v$ m6 f9 c2 ~"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." B3 c9 o; D+ g3 U; v6 v
1 }" l6 v* ]; @* O# ZHousing 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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- g; ^2 J- ^7 q" g; {2 O+ _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.% C# u2 w) q4 J5 m% L+ {; N
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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.; o- P. I+ y" }( B% T
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.& z2 R' ^( p: P C
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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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