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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。+ y$ L3 _8 i$ ?
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。
& O4 Z# [1 H2 [( A5 c: |带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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+ s6 D1 a4 }9 z4 c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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" r; b7 e. i: r, I8 u9 z) w+ ehttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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+ L) M0 k' Q& e3 m) A' K, Q: f. sAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
: q4 y! z: X3 T' X) o5 I3 VTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction# W4 ~- V% M. L
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BOSTON — 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.4 W4 R: A6 D& w8 V* z% j+ G
, a' J6 @3 r0 u3 w; D( T* o4 [Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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8 ^- d# d3 p j* q$ BBut 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 $560,000.
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2 H* C/ V% U$ t9 _' g+ b2 gThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city. `' t( K" d: s! k' w/ R U
9 q- d0 X( H: K0 M' |/ B( s“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.”' u; u& P( Y* A9 d9 p
3 U) Z( Y& }% K. MThe 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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" Z( A7 v8 }" f7 g3 Z& y! IThe 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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* Q; h9 @9 o+ ]1 |3 ?7 r6 OMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.$ x2 Q. U& t, L8 a7 ^
4 M1 t* p: [/ E6 c0 R“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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