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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?, A8 o, N6 v- _4 i
1 X6 i5 |( G, `8 y2 F/ ?9 [Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent3 v7 B$ \; i) N( }( M( l6 {
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT% G/ g- S3 J! e- t1 K/ Z4 I3 z& M
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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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* \* v! Q, B+ A# o' ]0 I"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."' T; G6 r/ _8 y4 |. P
/ F f b5 x u) P: f& A( QHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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: y7 G4 h# |4 F# B" T/ C# NBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.) O) G$ `# E n. o0 C' B
) l- U: R7 O. ~4 MMcNaughton 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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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price./ V5 j- h+ V7 I( _
: f. i- W1 g0 I0 R j"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.8 N; u, C" V9 n+ J
# C% ~$ p: b, }, g8 G% @3 ?Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.; h" D* |, w+ B
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