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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?: P2 B. t! W" V; ?
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V: k* i7 W( v6 jLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT1 |5 y& u' P" y: p' b( s7 B
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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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1 k: v# J+ b4 w1 V0 t. {" g6 p"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."& q1 O7 U' ]- p# n. A
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.+ y6 g0 D4 h6 A. n ?
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent., H8 a: `' e8 R$ j: |) s- L
- F: g. V ]# m: x% |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.& m' l1 B) ~5 A
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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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: K: a& S, h6 D- ~2 Q"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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. _8 F! v: {9 F' ?, m2 d& j2 @Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said. ?& M1 D+ _! t( S5 d) [
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