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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。3 {# \6 x3 @1 T, X
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。+ j/ V/ K/ L9 E! @- P, A
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。$ s0 V. Q3 W7 Z/ m# Q
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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。! t! B( l9 J, }5 E
3 ?8 G# R5 N: b% a) ^, R$ r% thttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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$ h4 b' _8 v* x" yAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More- @( |( B0 W% C: W3 v3 h# `
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction& N3 E! u# d7 [8 h" l
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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$ s6 D- P! I( P- R( \A 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. v: U6 E1 n" t8 H. N4 l- p
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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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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, c; `2 z& P' Q$ V% M. m* kThe 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.
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.( b4 ]5 K5 R* t8 ^9 G/ ^3 E! B
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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.; G# \8 u: X& |' E9 J: m' F
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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.& [6 }' T; O- e( q1 I8 S) V
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Still, 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.6 z" [% |0 w2 d) Z
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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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