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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
% o3 G* [1 w1 Y. Q# z$ G" j22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。& R. T7 M: }% P! G- k: b' A: W
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。
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2 H1 M- I4 V" X. ^; }2 {' chttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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% ]6 A: D- X7 w" h9 g V K4 XAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More7 e# T6 _$ ]) ?, \$ O5 r
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction6 Y$ R1 k$ n( `! q2 Y' }
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.2 [4 d2 O2 m7 `! Q
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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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8 e1 _( v2 P7 S3 l) P/ x5 w+ k+ @Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.2 U* u) {+ a D
+ N4 I) Z D! `& Z# ZBut 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 $560,000.
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, a1 s7 m: r! Y# `( I( zThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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: ?: v% B q: k B2 z“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”- B$ N* D* N9 c
/ x- b/ B0 i0 X% \" ?6 ~- W: VThe 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.. `$ ?* ]5 A+ e0 Y0 j3 A8 b. d
# g- ?& n/ R0 z6 T V/ D“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said." |) W5 B* a' C' R
* x& b( N7 Q6 r" u* _) l" YThe 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.) t4 L5 n2 a: m& m2 ~& E3 l6 Q
" C: |: k0 z" u: AMr. 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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9 |: h) k0 D, h8 k4 L) S UStill, 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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# E( Z# R1 j' q1 v2 A5 T! e/ ~“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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