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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
( F8 y' U2 h/ o! j0 y+ DLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT/ N/ C# E8 M6 e# C" W; E. H5 h
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/ C" o9 f1 Z; [: x( p' A( w& }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.
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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."
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent./ ?. V( P0 q) U# W* K1 R- c, |
. X4 i( [0 ^ g. g! `6 eBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.& i6 E" i( {* S& P* f
+ k g0 N C& t, q7 cMcNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.7 p5 d5 b$ p8 }) b0 U+ A
' i, _5 W% e2 M7 g: x"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.6 |4 ]1 m/ h5 r) `, j1 D: I6 G
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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 Y; w' l) _( J( F" P
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