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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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6 B* o+ T, a, H* z* I+ ^0 KSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
`8 |/ w7 v: Q3 s+ V( L! Q+ ~Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT7 \: D% P% T/ V
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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.# P1 Z1 k7 s7 [
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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."0 `$ K- T5 @. c& ~' p* g* x
3 G" F* c, J2 D# d( PHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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) ^# t' p# a+ F) mBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.+ U' s; I2 J+ E
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.3 ]0 e5 ^( m5 x$ x; n" T% z& 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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& ^% F2 n; \" \"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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5 G0 Z) u6 L7 _% j$ m+ VClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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