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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。, R; K) M# W. \( k+ }' C
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。
B8 T: ]) Q# O带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。: Y2 g/ c' H) |" h. \7 {3 o4 B
2 c! w: x' \2 _6 c( ?1 h# D- n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。. M# e9 I9 O4 Q, G
b1 n5 ]0 o7 ahttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More3 s7 k9 [: f0 H6 H. ~; y, G
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.- Z' ]6 {% F) t8 ^; M6 U6 u h
' c" q7 F6 N% R$ Y0 U. o6 eA 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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% U @# I$ v/ S7 W+ TJaws 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 $560,000.0 v" j6 v) Y3 {; D+ C% B( x# d
( S, i0 G" N# q( n' z" t$ TThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.7 l7 u7 I* n, R$ T- i7 e
; B1 x' ~! e3 p+ x" N" M: Q“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.”
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3 e( l+ \2 H2 N& xThe 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.: H' G( C! M3 u6 u8 ^
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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$ h7 V4 J* h# @: ~2 n, c! o4 F, UThe 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.
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: O9 C6 \) e- O2 v+ e! N“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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