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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。! ~+ K, l* N- G; s
22尺的2车库比19尺的好。19尺的车库比10尺的前后双车库好。
% B0 C* w8 \+ J$ L c带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。/ i6 p) ?0 l& s. N
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去年，在波士顿，前后式的露天双车位拍卖了56万美元。买家就住在旁边，已经有了3车库，这两个车位是请客时用的。$ F% ?2 K- S* w, C8 D
7 K) O! X' S% Phttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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" B$ h( a; r" w' D* h JAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
+ ]( L. c& |, z+ h! F. pTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction' E# ]8 @. e& Y9 ?9 D1 ^" O
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space." Z3 @ f$ ]4 w% m
, \5 V1 x8 S6 H# {( i' L( I' HA slab of asphalt, a couple of white lines, it often comes as part and parcel of a home purchase without too much thought. But in cities like Boston, parking spaces are at a premium, and prices have been climbing for years. In certain neighborhoods, the price of a home can go up $100,000 or $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.( `9 K1 o* q: O" Z: ]: U
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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But now, even that has been shattered. At an auction on Thursday, the bidding for a tandem spot — space for two cars, one behind the other — started out at $42,000. It ended 15 minutes later at $560,000.- h) @1 E9 z+ Z& L- }. y
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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* {% \' M6 u8 h0 o& v: r“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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The winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.' F9 k# x M+ W& |1 ?% ]6 d2 o
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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: Q0 e* n) b% z% }6 ?The auction was held in the back alley where the spaces are situated. It was conducted, in the rain, by the Internal Revenue Service, which had seized the spaces from a man who owed nearly $600,000 in back taxes. In 1993, The Globe said, the man bought them for $50,000.2 V& ]* d8 Y7 B
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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4 N% z. M* M' |4 Q1 PStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.
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9 u5 ]5 L3 [8 `( F1 ?# r. X“It’s hard for most of us to get our brains around this,” he said. “But this is a portal into the world of people who are playing by different rules than most of us. Boston is a Brahmin place where reason doesn’t go out the door so easily. |
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发表于 2014-7-24 13:18
富人的行为我们穷人就不用去理解了，前段时间还看到个豪宅，只有2间卧室，却有6个卫生间。据说也是为了方便开party的客人