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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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3 n' v: ]# _( o( a6 ~* yLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT$ o; }3 I' i5 W6 o: e% H
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0 \' l/ w, ?4 t. T7 V x# Q, UAt 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.
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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."9 M' r, ] q3 ?7 `
2 `) Y! _" G0 |8 U* J8 `7 D* iHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.5 @8 M- r) M5 k! U7 ]- Q& P
9 s2 f" t$ M3 fMcNaughton 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.7 v7 y9 J5 g; H, n
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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said. w* j; i7 b" O X/ h1 F
+ {8 q4 x) W' |4 M9 _# MClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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