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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?
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
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: q* f$ G* A9 ]! U$ S8 P' ]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.1 K6 ~2 a8 Y& V% w
! |& l4 E) d4 z2 Z"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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, ]- V9 g) y' E- K0 `0 NHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.; T# \7 b5 d4 r- @3 K
# P; V; g# x- H$ rClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.; I7 o; u5 t1 x/ q4 D
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