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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。) D! p* J- c: Y! d
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。3 J* Q8 H9 s, q! P1 h. s
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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" I+ |- p, r7 `% g Shttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
7 E3 u. ^" b( P3 p: b4 _. H$ RTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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( N7 C* J# g5 i2 [3 U9 m& @BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.- J' E5 g6 v' w" I
+ j$ J3 C2 q: B% s, q6 GA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.9 W$ C* J3 H z( ]- m0 W; n7 I; B9 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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5 L" d0 J4 g- ^! b1 o' j/ }+ z6 ?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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.& S7 P6 c, w; \4 h
' W2 A' u2 S, K$ ~ F“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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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.
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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' d# a8 l. u! Q# N k8 P: U# 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 $50,000.
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6 ^ R3 @. q# a$ r3 D) R% i8 R- fMr. 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 A4 {/ ^0 ^! H6 I6 C! L) t0 D
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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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: c4 s1 ^3 x+ K. C8 P“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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