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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?# d- q6 Y7 V* r, n- z- \7 [0 J' n) E
9 T, `* o T3 ?# t( N& B1 ~Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent4 {9 b+ n( u8 Y/ ^5 _! n! K
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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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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8 ?# c K+ p" F7 v; 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.8 F- c2 f: v5 l% S. p7 B! n
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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 $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.7 j9 U9 J4 l8 ^$ Q
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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. X% \" |! Y; E! O/ I
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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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* T1 v) B" L/ i7 U' w# o% o$ u% oKevin 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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) o9 L/ H) h" j7 J+ l% d1 Q3 A5 }"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.. f# z( p* K) c4 ^' X4 Q: u
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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." R* C/ E7 ]6 a3 i( I
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