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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?; X5 Y: J: @7 n" k+ O+ i2 ]7 c
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
# l; }9 I' T; l" s& E. e* t5 cLast 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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"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.( F' b* l$ f3 a
+ _( q4 M" F( Z& Q4 h$ h"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."$ u Y0 i/ y5 u! J+ p* Z, f
3 Q$ l2 K6 h8 j0 K* xHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.# F( q$ F3 y2 L
& P' t4 A* W/ n8 vBut 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.9 W$ D7 R7 a/ [& x& Y8 q
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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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" ~& E) ^+ ]( U3 e, D0 QKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.% y2 q$ A1 I9 N0 J/ c" y+ e
u3 ?) C8 J$ L' M& D' I8 P6 N* a1 L"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.3 n! N! v" U9 x! m
6 K0 b$ u. q8 NClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said., Q6 B8 U) N# i C/ Q
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