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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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5 r/ y2 m$ X5 m4 K9 m' |! p$ a$ {Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT0 W# X6 p( V8 @0 U0 C/ B
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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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" v& f/ H- [, g: @) v"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./ {* Q2 v" O, G Y
, ~& x* N( B5 y0 t5 D) j"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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) R2 I6 y+ _( ?" ? c0 n9 WHousing 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.) Y7 v. v( U! g7 P6 N" s+ z& R
q( f/ F* G, Q4 b# _4 ?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.8 x2 l2 C0 l+ p# V- a% x; `
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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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.- A' m* v* h) ]. y& f l9 u
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