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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?3 t, R8 {1 @1 Z% p
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent7 i2 t9 [+ a) ?& c
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT% J& y* j' n6 c s0 i
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; A% ~+ o. [0 p- iAt 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.2 ?3 u" C3 z b' O
! a: I, f, T" B7 J3 _1 U0 F"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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! I) [$ v [& H7 Q+ ?, D"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."5 B& Z4 @+ J0 b- X. z* 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 $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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+ _1 a4 W; u7 x. h+ @4 ?But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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- \6 J! A$ o7 t' j: Z0 ~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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) z/ {' y4 v/ \8 A( u6 d$ vKevin 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.
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6 Q2 o7 D; q% c* \8 ?8 |7 JClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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