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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?! ?8 E- f Q; A/ Q
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Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent! N" e6 j# E) I! d
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT0 b5 ^6 h+ C9 `$ L( m
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' {+ w1 [' G8 d6 d2 nAt 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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"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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! Z0 k+ n, R8 }"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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6 ^' Y5 X$ w( t3 g& iHousing 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.' }: J: Q9 o# S' c2 M6 I& x
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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.' ?1 k& Y6 l' P3 ]
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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.
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% {/ Q4 J7 l( ?- d7 C"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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/ K8 ?9 t. R C+ Y! C% l0 `/ g/ YClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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