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; L2 {. ]2 y4 p) ^5 kSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
5 o( I4 N- T D( z) |+ LLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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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.
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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."5 S$ t! r5 C* M8 H3 Q! X3 e
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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' K+ g7 f. h4 a4 U0 t- PBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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f6 ^+ T3 Y$ \) ?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.
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& G1 N& n/ ?. z"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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4 A. n* e1 ~% x t8 W3 Z5 [Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said., t2 y: S0 I+ Y" }' f8 w
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