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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 m. Y7 G* _9 K* Z) n
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT. l) w/ Y" H# k2 `' _/ G" U
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7 Y. s6 D! t7 |* d2 } p4 r+ `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.+ ?/ z A- K8 Z2 }5 A" ]: _- Y
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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.0 I! B$ e7 E9 p* {* c9 u% v
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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.", ?8 f) ]0 P7 C8 M/ O6 q6 |7 I& e9 v
8 U4 j% o* ^; L4 s0 y+ D: D; _5 sHousing 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.& o5 x1 L G- K( T+ ~
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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.
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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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: j3 S8 [! z" S7 vKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price., V! m' }2 J4 s8 u! G
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.6 I s! r2 V: M( H2 d6 k
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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.
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