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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?0 V3 _) I8 Q3 L# Y# w' @3 m
5 A9 y- @, D" C$ ], qSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent; v7 x q4 {* W
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT( j+ a" ]. v) i! O- x' [3 q5 k) |7 `
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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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( N* @& H. v8 ^ q. K S"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.0 p, D- v2 B; {, n0 N
/ A9 O5 R" J" n3 e"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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' T7 [1 j3 J6 F, z) hHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.1 ]0 _$ N7 E: ~- ^5 Q5 K* R
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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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) \! z; ^- Q( D; }: S) ~Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.& v" x2 e7 U! L% ?) L
: [! v, ]$ b1 T8 |2 r"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.0 A4 k, Y, q- K! }
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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.: J9 I: b: D8 |& F/ E2 Z
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