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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?! ]- c2 S X4 s2 J) n3 w9 @
2 g! m8 g6 Z, _; }Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
. t; m1 O P9 h$ e9 |# F) `Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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; L: B, B V4 e, NAt 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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"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."/ f( R, o4 a$ o) N
3 e4 A7 F2 o S+ w5 {3 R! 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.
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4 g6 N3 P7 T1 O, |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.1 b7 @, T% Z3 U; u; p7 T
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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.( j- P3 ]( v7 a) m7 z& ^9 c% k
( }* `# e+ L' Z; P- W W. o"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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; g5 T E3 T3 W8 TClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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