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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。3 k. y; [" e: o& l) F; m
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 e5 ]$ r; p0 f$ p3 E
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。/ F+ o9 t. C" m) G
$ j5 |* c- f- [6 [ K/ f" X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。" i5 T! h3 ^# s; j5 [, D
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]* v; E' z0 t0 Q5 o; W0 d8 v
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( b! G: c% Q" ~' TTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction4 H, Y; O7 R+ t2 a
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.2 ?4 {6 U& ]( M) n! V' {" u% C
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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.
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. X# u/ {: {3 w2 TJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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# F7 o4 b' }" V3 i9 }0 t- p: FBut 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 $560,000.( _- V0 \- @6 W( r$ G
! V) T5 b2 r) f, v- p: I5 _6 |The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.5 ]( ]- d! Z( I) D/ D% f
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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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& ?& I2 `3 [" UThe 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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6 S r f0 g# i# K C“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said., _7 L& }: H& B9 I# E
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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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0 _: H) Q, l; U' _" g( E3 j' CMr. 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.4 ]5 A5 }% {6 `/ M. O1 |
; P. ^3 J; U0 n& 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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“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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