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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' [% m" n% w, \. W# H/ c9 y P
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT% ^2 P1 d& B3 X! g
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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.+ m% F, i% L3 C3 V/ K8 [" J* E) s
8 k+ B: \$ i) `6 c" H"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.8 U% l5 F% a8 z
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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."# R E% O/ c9 f5 j9 V1 E
- _6 L1 v1 X2 THousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.+ I$ [$ G) M' f, j& r) @0 T
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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.- q% b( C! ?' J. B1 C2 u/ l+ }1 |
0 n6 y* `3 q. E5 b. xMcNaughton 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.$ P7 P/ Y5 ]" k6 {( Q
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( W9 j0 w0 e# W$ @' t( EKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.7 p" `* {/ W# |) e& H# [
Q o) Q. i2 n"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.5 f$ ^( z! t, [3 ~4 M/ j. ~5 O. O
8 z4 F0 U/ ]3 A. _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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