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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
9 o2 ]0 V. ?3 hLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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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.! }3 y$ f6 ?! S) Z0 @
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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."
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* h, {. u) z# C" P( e1 IHousing 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.) f# d: l0 q2 U% z. ^3 H2 A: V% K
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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.
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+ r% L. g/ g% D9 @: SMcNaughton 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.& t1 F" e% V6 l1 a7 ]- Z
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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.
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' g( r# L5 a" H% t; @9 {"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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- G" z! V; C& G* {* Y P4 r. f- RClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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