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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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' }# E# K: h, b) s8 ~Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT/ C5 |: k- H! ]
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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. K1 r/ M2 C- x8 X
+ L' x& [" H$ O, A) h8 m"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.
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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.4 I5 f, P2 p7 u1 @4 T0 u! M
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" K# `' ^( M# `( BKevin 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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"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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% m* A% O+ u! T8 C0 Y1 v% r: u8 aClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.& y! o- \2 c2 ]9 J7 S
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