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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
1 O4 T3 O7 {+ _ S3 _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。
9 O$ ~4 Y0 r; p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。0 Y6 e/ Y* x. c( }( c, ^ H% y
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More/ x' j; a0 [( ^. o! b: a, Z% D
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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% P- @) ^* M! r! d% uBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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9 ~) y. j! a. P* B) s8 OA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.' w6 X' V3 q* V N5 I$ y$ \" v
, I3 s( ]" d1 e$ H( ^* l- FJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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' S) p8 o7 H: g6 q6 H) ~' s1 P% ^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 $560,000.* s; g! Z3 O: E4 U" ] t% m
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.+ C; q2 l( H) c
2 [! R; c7 F1 O7 |2 a$ b7 \3 K“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.”0 P, l9 C! C m3 O5 I+ j: i
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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.) _/ `# v, ]; D- u; ~7 ]
. h- m. P, X H“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 $50,000.
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3 z$ ^* c. [& Q2 F- Q* ?/ DMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.: ^# }% e i- s3 S& o, u
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Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.) _. ~: B6 m1 u" u2 f2 G T# r }
: _ c/ [% e M$ n3 F“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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