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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。
8 g* h3 Q. _5 `1 w22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。1 A9 t& u- {1 F( F6 R5 C! Y
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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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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2 A. e/ V' e7 d V) N$ ohttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[], Z( A7 T$ c8 q+ {# P. j; K z
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More2 C: ]) }! C, x4 L3 ^
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.! o4 e2 r' s3 a' S: Y
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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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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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) G( `( P6 D$ T$ h6 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 $560,000.; ~6 }0 j% j1 B& p1 Q
- G2 m0 `" r- f* h1 AThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city. {5 p. I$ F$ `5 i# Y' {
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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.”# K& a+ S! Q$ h- w8 \" v& T, O
8 X1 W$ Y0 T! g; M2 M4 v- GThe 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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0 s& C u% O$ X2 O4 R“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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" ?: V5 S* Q+ [+ { {% aThe 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 $50,000.
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& f4 N6 G/ T& ]$ v) NMr. 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." \; ~0 D3 Q: s8 P9 m
0 E1 i+ M [2 b& i2 ?- AStill, 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., X. }7 H: R2 `8 U1 |% 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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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