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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 agent( t- u( A0 m4 |
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.& k0 e7 o1 U. S; j! E% U9 L
$ L+ |0 o5 F' }; w! R"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.9 t7 |& C. t7 X& s) s+ ~* i5 t' C9 P
# ]. d/ J, T B- t"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.", t3 I% @) \" K2 E
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.) i0 [4 g7 w4 C b
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.( K2 R+ ^9 Q( i# v$ [
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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.$ ^4 [' E% X, {. Q
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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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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.0 P& K, A" J2 U& {& p* S
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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.7 a+ D" n5 i- A& v9 U
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