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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。5 b) R- @& U& C+ c) b
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。9 j3 E" |, [( [- W4 _0 x. S% P8 S
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。 ~9 F8 J3 s0 g# v1 |
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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[]
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$ T- r: z* [! I) m2 G5 qAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More6 ^+ ^# `# H6 E' C/ I# R O
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.3 c; b- k, f2 `6 G; }; Z3 [
6 g4 d+ U; Z1 H7 _3 r" VA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.3 ]# y$ ?$ t& l0 }& K. Q; 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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( X! k# A7 F% }" R: N" B% x0 R KBut 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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/ D" k0 c* V# PThe 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.” ]" I0 k9 F8 g* F
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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. b1 c* k" }9 }2 u( q4 x
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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' H9 z/ h/ C3 \/ k/ OThe 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 $50,000., r9 v7 E8 n5 C7 N
: [; L( O$ M) t1 u* l# L& x 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.7 T0 U6 q+ N, R1 W
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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.
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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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