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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 e2 n3 _4 g$ s; iSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
1 \+ i" F* } P% v2 x8 K# }$ A- ^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.+ X& J6 g% M- k
: y1 O5 e J0 Q* P+ e s' u. `"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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- s2 I! Y& ?9 Y0 N1 W6 d x: nHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.8 S8 L" n7 m5 w6 }6 ?' w2 g# ?- @
5 Y2 S- o+ b2 F/ s2 W0 ^) c" [5 gBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices./ x. [1 O/ E( p/ b2 y
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( B- T- t: W" @2 M) z0 ]4 h3 iKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.' u; h: ^4 ?% R5 D( a
; h V0 h1 `; J* n"There are properties that were overpriced, are still overpriced and haven't sold, and therefore becoming vacant," he said.
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. g" ~7 V- _0 c! v: u$ ]( HClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.7 @# p# C3 T" T6 s: K2 P$ g
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