My friend's house is listing for sale for 2 months. It seems to be hard to get a fair offer. She told me she didn't want to drop the price. Who knows what would happen in the market. My feeling is the price is still high but buyers are cautious to give an offer.
看一看英文原文后面的评论:
1. Not only are home prices too high the homes themselves are way too big. It seems the people building them want little dream mansions when a small home similar to those built after WW2 would be more than enough.
2. $355,777 is beyond my belief as an average price of houses. I bought my 3-bedroom home in suburban Montreal 20 years ago for $91,000. No wonder people are carrying such massive debt.
3. This is the beginning - Price corrections will follow. The sooner the better, the price has been skyrocketing and as we know, the higher it flies, the greater the fall.
4. If the sales of homes are "falling dramatically" then it does not really matter what the price is.
The value of a thing is not based on its price; it's based on the willingness of people to pay it. That willingness is dropping like a stone, as are sales, as will prices.
5. And who should you trust more than the Canadian Real Estate Association when it comes to these numbers...maybe that lawyer who was handing out business cards in the Emergency Room of your local hospital.
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建华
2012-10-15 20:45
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英文中的最后一段,也是全文总结,被本网编译萧山忽略了。请问51老板,要不要问责?
最后一段:"The Canadian housing market has clearly lost some of its lustre," he notes, adding that he does not expect a widespread national correction. "The bulk of the correction will be concentrated in markets we feel are particularly overvalued, such as Toronto and Vancouver," he said.(大概意思是:“很明显,加拿大房屋市场已经失去了一些光彩,”他提到,补充说他不预期全国范围的修正。“这个修正会集中在我们感觉到已经明显地被高估的市场,例如多伦多和温哥华。”翻译得正不正确,请无忧了斧正。)
顶一个。
大家看看英文原文,可以发现翻译者偏心(偏向于为51贡献了大量广告费的恩客-----JJ)👎️
本来英文写作者已经偏心于JJ, 而51的编译则再次进行放大。
标题:Home sales drop 15% in September as prices edge higher
副标题:Prices increase by 1.1% in past 12 months, realtor group says
正文:
The average price of a Canadian home inched 1.1 per cent higher to $355,777 in September, even as the number of homes sold fell precipitously.
The Canadian Real Estate Association's monthly sales data released Monday show the volume of home sales across the country was 15.1 per cent lower in September 2012 compared to the same month a year earlier.
More than half of all local markets posted declines of at least 10 per cent, CREA said.
"New mortgage rules continue to keep a lid on national sales activity," CREA president Wayne Moen said in a release.
“In the shadow of the latest mortgage rule changes, activity has ratcheted down from higher levels seen during the fourth quarter last year," CREA chief economist Gregory Klump added.
In July, the federal government capped the maximum length for an insured mortgage at 25 years, making it harder to qualify for a mortgage and likely to squeeze new buyers out of the market and let the air out of price gains.
That's exactly what's happening, CREA says.
"While some first-time homebuyers may no longer qualify for mortgage financing under the new rules, it is likely that many others are stepping back and reassessing how much house they can realistically afford, which is one of the things new mortgage rules were designed to do."
At various times over the past 18 months, CREA has warned that the national average price has been artificially skewed higher or lower because of activity in Canada's two largest housing markets — Toronto and Vancouver.
Vancouver drags prices lower
That was once again the case in September, as CREA said fewer sales in Greater Vancouver this year compared to much stronger levels last year dragged the average lower.
The Vancouver market currently represents about five per cent of all home sales in the country.
If Vancouver is stripped out of the equation, the national average would have shown a year-over-year increase of 3.4 per cent.
"While most major markets are recovering from previous price declines, the average price in Toronto hit a new record high of $509,700," Toronto-Dominion Bank economist Francis Fong said in a note.
"The Canadian housing market has clearly lost some of its lustre," he notes, adding that he does not expect a widespread national correction. "The bulk of the correction will be concentrated in markets we feel are particularly overvalued, such as Toronto and Vancouver," he said.👎️
"9月份房屋实际销售比8月还上升了2.5%" and that's 比8月大幅上升?
And you do know August is the slowest month of the year, right?
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xlai
2012-10-15 12:02
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51编辑为什么不翻译全文. 看看原文: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/10/15/crea-september-housing.html 注意最后一句: markets we feel are particularly overvalued, such as Toronto and Vancouver.
9月房产年同比下滑15.1% 比8月大幅上升