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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 agent3 `& O2 u7 K5 U& \0 {( e1 M
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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9 l+ r8 W1 ], J- a7 u" M2 CAt 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.1 Z+ z: |7 w d
3 `+ M' J3 S! d6 \& O8 p"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."- M3 i9 n6 ^ e8 B7 s8 b" d% Q
5 l8 ~! T7 R8 r1 f; _" M% mHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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3 V8 }1 g- @! TBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.+ i, p w: K6 D. r e. S
8 `4 d" g5 ~- Y' h0 HMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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$ |+ B4 |9 o6 hKevin 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.( i( r6 k; [; e) @7 \' E# C6 i( |
; K# i! A& ?4 O2 e* I( m& s- c! }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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