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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?# Q+ @! [. {; x4 U2 e* c- C: Q
) J! F: @7 a Z2 @Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
5 y, F! {7 Y+ K6 L; _) LLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT4 _' s- Y5 f7 r2 I9 y
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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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7 ?$ y( W! v6 D( \2 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."8 h) m, [# O* M
1 y' Z# [2 v9 o4 G# PHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.. @3 N' U! \7 B l& l
- ^6 I: S5 l# A7 JBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.1 ~$ l8 n9 f! a
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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.: P8 g% m0 Y- p* }: `$ a
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# q3 G% l4 M/ T- fKevin 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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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.9 `( ^' J7 q7 O z) m% [
/ {0 B: F: a, y2 c- S: E. N4 MClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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