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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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+ x4 Y" l" y" J- D5 QSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent$ a) C" u( P5 l
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT: T1 A& m2 J5 b* T; F( r* @
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% m) k/ D/ ?$ V( {4 Y. j: WAt 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.' s& m2 Y" @( l' P, T, |
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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.' D0 p/ Z2 F0 f6 b% l% }
( u, G: d4 c: A3 X4 }" j- m3 l"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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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.+ u" x( T8 H9 O0 S
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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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; @4 G8 B [9 H0 |* `% s) q0 [5 u4 ~+ @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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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.9 i) j/ l* k5 }5 v, z+ }4 v! A
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.2 v z& d+ X! J" w
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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.
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