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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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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent/ R6 I# C5 [1 A
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT! ]4 O6 j" | `4 f7 X1 k6 b7 |
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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.7 @0 _/ l# { a5 m( i3 L5 L
6 }! @; \+ O d% ?. I/ z"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."3 {- k$ `! a" m9 y1 \+ c
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.& e- n0 e: h# w" y/ Y$ n, r
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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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7 E( G: U: `6 t% f+ RKevin 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.# |- t+ k: l9 F6 N* ]7 J
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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." z7 ]2 K0 H+ A" \! |+ E% ?
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