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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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. G" A$ S- {' b! g" YSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
' F' u, R% @) p U. s) W6 LLast Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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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.6 d3 X* |" w! p2 H
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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."" `8 g4 V/ `; B* p# ?& \2 p) E2 z
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Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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8 D, ?8 z: x8 n' s- G4 t5 IBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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( \. M" K5 A6 y' P$ i- L# 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.' n" K( m/ b9 G" t# Z$ w6 Z q
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6 ^( r9 y& @7 `3 b% R- FKevin 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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* b1 c. X. M7 m$ N"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.; l! L; ~8 v9 |8 e8 a
# v+ P8 r" @3 l3 ?( |' o. t$ pClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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