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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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2 P$ J2 i& _$ e1 H! }& ]Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent- Z- x. w* }2 \3 g- a. I0 ^
Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT
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/ f" S9 J3 D& ] \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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"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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' s0 }! ~6 e- K' L+ R o; v7 o1 R3 Q/ M"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."4 g7 y5 L! Z! X% |9 u
, o$ p0 A9 { c2 R3 c4 b/ g* NHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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But as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.7 B# q6 p1 {( O7 W) V
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.
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Kevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.
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1 J: F8 I1 s8 y) C8 G" f. F. C' d"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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' U% s$ w. o) `; Q. w/ {* }Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said." N6 L* ^* ]; d. a
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