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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。! A- L6 |5 k6 c1 ~5 e; l; _5 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。, y: C! v+ r; U1 B3 z) n0 l
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。6 P4 N! x; S$ M, A+ H* [- z# g
. C$ Q0 b# V5 m( C6 [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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4 u, l X; |) s7 k* vTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction X$ R& i5 O0 g( Q5 h
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' G) p8 p/ | q: o* V$ sBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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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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% \) t% l9 R: |9 nJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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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 $560,000.
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8 {; J( k% g" E4 v( s, o. [. HThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city." K+ l3 H: _$ E$ I2 _
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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.”! i- s5 m0 \6 \, M4 _6 g6 u3 e$ r
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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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$ F& [* o" H# F/ [ b( y- V8 ^/ D“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.* ?2 c! `* S4 @/ e+ P
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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 $50,000.8 _4 k1 T7 F z7 y+ T
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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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5 k0 t, F/ W& k& B+ V) ^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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“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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