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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
9 O1 @8 B; @9 u9 p' b/ c' q& g3 fLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT* t) r* q* V$ v& a" [
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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.' S; S: _$ x' q
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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."& |2 k: t: m! D" a- x) |
$ Q8 e+ B& P0 ~! g. L+ wHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent." m3 ?4 a+ H% K
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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0 ^; Y2 b. J# F1 m0 M; XMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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, \, |$ g0 V) i5 W$ K& i8 M"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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. B# ?7 T6 k2 K* d/ KClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.* W2 L6 r; [3 I' w0 U
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