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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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& E7 @, Y/ s }8 lSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent6 o) K8 i3 V4 W
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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" q2 J) e: f+ x: x# x/ n6 MAt 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.8 P6 k$ M& `: K; D9 x; @7 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., t1 r [2 [2 A, L: W8 i
! h: h3 U7 O5 u2 b0 x"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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, @! O: b' }9 q* A& t: v% ~Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.3 J" l3 G) I2 }& I* E
) B9 T5 h; l5 ABut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.( k. [& `, w# e& s+ ^7 v* d
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.7 `* M( _0 r& }1 G
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* G$ _* i% o# M; C3 NKevin 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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7 s' `1 H% u& l$ K B9 N& S$ r3 y"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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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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