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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?' j2 [( H# L) d- A6 Z0 o
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Last Updated: Monday, January 15, 2007 | 3:32 PM MT1 _. T5 B: _+ C3 E
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8 J; m2 O) b7 r+ ?4 m% K( H! cAt 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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% o/ V& M3 _1 D! O, @: ]"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."5 B0 r" [) i% |6 L" d' p
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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.8 Q, l2 x( A& |
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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.
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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.0 l6 w" H) j8 e
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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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Clients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.0 ^, n5 t! \3 C6 @3 }9 J
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