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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?7 @: r9 [0 h- n& V/ [$ c
/ j% I% @2 s) B) [3 iSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
A7 i o2 }4 _: jLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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/ \' i i/ v+ x4 @% {7 W; }1 a# ~# TAt 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.6 E+ I8 y8 ^) Q
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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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$ \* c. u+ 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 $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.3 g! e/ E1 v8 k* A8 x) a
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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7 V+ Z; L+ G- _Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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* G$ Z, J1 }6 p8 J+ p) M"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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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.# b ?" `9 \) C; N+ d; C( N
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