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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?3 @, Q, f9 Y2 Q- G- b! X
& M7 Z6 y4 @+ O. I: NSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent( V& M& a: l* ` q
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT1 S1 F! _" E* ^1 B# h
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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.4 l) K, ^" v: d" ?9 f
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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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5 c* a4 g, o% D5 s/ N9 C/ f; t"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 $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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0 P: x$ f4 [; p; z5 \! dBut 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.( a0 Z* F( W( @2 y2 h+ L. |7 M
8 F, }5 i6 [8 k5 p' _6 fMcNaughton 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.8 H8 S n" J( U
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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.# a# Y0 T+ r$ w) X: E, _4 I
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.3 T/ U$ U: p! e/ T" J. s/ M* M( ~" p
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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.
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