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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
. q/ d. v, j6 E: U0 n/ M- U22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 j% k/ Q+ i* ~( C, w带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。0 q2 c7 _; {$ L0 @( U4 I g3 \
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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。; x# ^7 |& J9 C8 Y; u, x. Z6 v
- T4 A4 W; e$ O& I, jhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]& j, u8 n$ i, [/ ~% C2 ^
6 f2 T2 |* f9 |5 f& fAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
7 e( _/ t( z3 A4 `3 ATwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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# X7 n7 Q! |/ Y! `( o: a gBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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% X7 P4 M; x* l, xA 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.( @, m8 k. J7 C* E5 l, o
) A- G, O6 D+ b0 xJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record., M4 k2 Y# L: ^
+ D/ V% H0 E' @4 PBut 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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% n# x h& k9 M6 ]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.”% P7 g% J6 a9 E. M# m9 [
# h4 \+ r, ?2 O0 }3 K% hThe 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.8 Q4 K* I& h" d
% u; i4 Y9 ?& j: s- i5 R“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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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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Mr. 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.0 T/ Q' Y" A9 d* j
/ v# \! D8 w0 E# _6 ~; [/ [“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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