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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?" ^+ ], U5 ]/ d
9 q$ _ K& Q! t: Z$ k' [( Z, \( p9 ySellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent* i$ e. R. ^' Y2 q( C+ Z
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT, I0 w1 w5 \3 u* N8 O
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8 i! t+ \, R0 K, J2 v# lAt 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.
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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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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.3 ]3 _" B7 t& }1 I) G/ i! f
" k5 o; i: v6 ?8 RBut 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.! b; R! [; [6 H8 v1 b, q
& a4 c& t' \( ?. K0 R3 r: uMcNaughton 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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6 ]& X8 W) O- C8 F; J"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said. A; D; H4 E+ s& @4 ]# T8 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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