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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 agent8 b3 X* L) o e4 w+ O8 M
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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, _9 J; R2 \) J: @7 U+ Q* M5 CAt 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.$ Q* _* c- w( G2 e. U* B
5 _# l, D5 I# o- ]$ r0 @) O"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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8 {, z9 d0 E6 X8 l# GHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.. ]/ B; |, }7 E* K3 O
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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/ N# ^+ O2 X( j/ m8 B$ T- ?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 H4 m6 _; N+ p% j; T
% F! E, q/ {1 {" U, ~"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.7 A; g# y+ F6 `* k% ~2 p* g
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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.. e. m9 B$ A, w$ c+ x: e' H
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