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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 O1 W; |: V; [. @1 Y6 m
2 |0 D, f$ G* ~+ h7 vSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
: g, U; w) @8 p# {/ K# `! XLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
4 k# |5 Y- Y! {& O8 dCBC News6 y- `/ t& U7 n4 W) a9 f9 I7 I" t
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.7 d' f: `% i9 y6 l/ M6 }
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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."
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0 l9 J! c$ @9 V/ y5 xHousing 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.2 b% T! m. y% J1 {, n- e% s
W5 ]* I& m5 t0 F8 ^0 K7 xBut 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.+ Q* }8 d& ~. K- ^: w
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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.# p# L0 h, M7 ]' o9 y4 S, l
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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.3 |7 x! b1 Y: \5 D1 C- A3 G8 B
9 S. y, z3 p- k. a" O9 n, u"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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2 w- r p) H, b1 N/ z& v% ~. ~Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.8 @( C, S' g7 h4 D1 v
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