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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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$ ]) a+ f3 _+ f7 {Sellers are overly optimistic: real estate agent
" p! \& u2 Y6 G @ E$ FLast 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.: O N/ }; g8 O+ a8 @$ n# W
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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.; b0 s$ M: t. c; a& b' w5 {. L
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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." Z: v# W" w1 H3 A K% N
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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.5 S: ?# }, o. S0 G+ F4 J( d
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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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: \- Q- a5 y0 R& r+ FMcNaughton 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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( ]6 Z6 s+ @# \6 S6 N7 p" _" iKevin Clark, president of the Calgary Real Estate Board, said almost half of the properties that sold in December went at a reduced price.! k( Z: e" f% h6 n3 s8 v
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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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3 z: A" H+ b8 {4 PClients unwilling to drop their prices are banking on the possibility that the market will again get red hot, McNaughton said.9 a5 o/ s# Q/ x) l& J& p H* l
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