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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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Last 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.
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" t1 T* N9 Z# i1 I1 j) D9 H3 p"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.6 L1 W0 g! t6 v9 K1 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."
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b' a: L8 f% ?7 `1 d4 x4 |" [Housing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.+ U; H) _9 y) Z7 j; L
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.3 q* Z* m. Q# j. T8 P: @! I3 e7 k
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.3 m* a5 k' }3 k. o' H, H. E+ f
. o7 \9 a' k+ c$ ^4 M"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.% E# s9 ^- T5 |* n& W, K& l" ~
! l0 V9 z& g( ~7 G2 s3 v: `Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said. k: z8 E- ^* x
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