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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。. R) o8 r4 ]; F3 N3 y
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。4 {3 F+ @0 t; k+ V* f/ I
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。, s0 f% e4 {- B
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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。
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]( {% Z% [, G) f2 b; A1 t
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Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction# ?9 }' d6 t J0 I& E7 ?
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.% P; }* |! W8 t: x+ J
+ y# i6 f) y3 {1 P9 T9 W5 EA 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., w) z! |/ K3 F
$ |& I% m! W# I' NJaws 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." V6 r E4 w/ [- I* X ~
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.# Q& _. Y; y! q, x2 b- X2 [
1 c9 _* h7 ^# s+ x, | G“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.' K7 E( `" f% Y5 s
7 b9 ~4 c! Y) {: ]6 ^* ~“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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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 $50,000.
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" _+ y- |9 h2 [8 x$ M1 |3 vMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.+ R7 k) n; T5 i
+ ]3 c1 R: g! b2 b& j- VStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.3 ~3 D$ Q; H2 B# S( b/ L9 g: y
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“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