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! P% D9 Y* W, \4 BSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
1 q+ l- w- k& \* L/ P0 j: W9 oLast 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.- @% I4 F+ X" j% s; |& z
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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."+ C2 z" S) [1 o9 i9 {) \9 {' u" {8 O
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.( v1 a7 {- }; g4 Y3 l$ Z/ Z
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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.! \! {: f, c% y/ T
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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.1 I4 b% i4 v0 T
; K* O' H8 G6 l"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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* ?- o. n8 w5 b( Y1 q( w) s" a- Q/ sClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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