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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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7 g/ ^% y* {& e9 kSellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
, p2 n( d; u. u/ _ Q5 CLast 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.
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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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2 L p7 B+ b& N6 D+ k% ~9 q! H6 K"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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' A+ P& N* a/ eHousing prices soared 38 per cent in Calgary in 2006, with the average price for a single-family home at $396,870. In 2005, prices went up 18 per cent.
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7 ^6 i d( Z3 n( c+ _, {/ m. e2 G zBut as a new year begins, the Calgary Real Estate Board said the vacancy rate in listed houses has reached 33 per cent, while in condos it is at 40 per cent.
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McNaughton said sellers with vacant properties may have bought in hopes of reselling, or recently moved to newly built homes. The next two weeks will say a lot about the 2007 market, she said, with sellers either pulling their properties off the market to rent them, or lowering their prices.$ z& P- J9 n+ h- t: f/ U: e
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7 _ q( D, `, k; H$ IKevin 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.* f8 m+ G+ A2 j3 ~& @
8 X* |8 s/ `& ZClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.
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