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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。" _! M. H3 v2 z v, _ C& 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。
7 J6 c' U( a! g$ G8 R/ x2 }1 z带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。6 m8 H9 ~& _1 g! |
3 e8 }( B0 f( z0 P9 m# ?# @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。6 C# m% h- W2 {9 q% H, P
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]6 d) u9 y6 c; I7 I6 x
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
- S& s" E4 b5 `2 u' LTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.6 k5 U. [1 l2 f, S
' c% ^- y$ j, T8 o7 b4 LA 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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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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" H4 q' v+ E" s% O- iBut 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 $560,000., z# y" s* P! L
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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/ x- Y$ @0 h# e3 r4 N% c) n. \) L1 XThe 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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' U+ O# C+ ~, h4 J“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.! A3 H9 @! V- z* I7 L
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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 $50,000.
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' h4 b9 Y3 l3 x% Z% R$ 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.
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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 i8 g6 a# W; F- C% K
: j! {% z5 K; ^; e6 W0 e& P8 r“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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