 鲜花( 1181)  鸡蛋( 48)
|
4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。6 D K, I, u7 y
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。( e8 C' z" E$ G& B3 c6 s5 p7 I7 n
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。5 U: a( v3 l6 ~# ^4 r! M( A1 U# B
# u0 Q7 H/ f; W D
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。
5 h- K8 K0 H7 g8 z3 E$ e0 w! X7 p9 X2 R+ x" y2 s# N$ V
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]) _6 F/ q" A# D# E9 S- h( b. k3 c
7 r- h& P+ O' e c0 X/ n8 `And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More0 C% ^" C4 p* j4 b. R
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction) S# E1 l% c$ V+ }' s& O
2 g. P, Z, }( n0 S2 O! `" o0 ?7 D- a! F

% \9 d: h. J+ V' n/ S* x
- `/ U4 v% b; L9 V# f9 u, BBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.: Z5 m/ s( U: `# e( U) i) P$ u
, W3 k9 p" Z" ^) @2 Z
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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.
6 a: y8 e$ @/ {& @4 P5 k8 a+ k' I5 O1 b8 q! j$ W0 A9 ?; N2 {
Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.2 ^8 r0 F# Y) h3 r3 [& A! F+ A
( D, b/ }2 O5 W4 L) N
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 $560,000.& a' m/ M- J/ q9 z4 }
, G$ i: n/ b4 E; Q L
The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.3 M$ O' O0 }7 k/ y B- H
# }9 }& `2 p8 I& e“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.”
! C3 V' ]7 E# p5 q- {4 _/ E, B# A" y0 Q' j6 q
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. Y' p& w; h D; y7 M6 h; Y
2 c8 b0 ? c& M# L# [$ |“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.: H+ P; C M6 O
3 q, ?& O0 D3 O0 i, XThe 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.; { M# y) m* b9 D3 Q
; S& t, c1 q: \ w! R( v, WMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
) ?" v' e. [) B* f; V" [8 p3 L+ Y" |% ^. y
Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.1 K$ p. s) L: |' K
; O' F3 f6 o6 n; A+ l' `" h; b
“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. |
|