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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。4 o2 x6 y9 @ u
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。3 u* `- q' c9 ~! I; ~- f8 T
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。7 i3 T. \: p) M
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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。9 k; B! b5 D3 Q+ d4 N- \0 r
, C5 N: a; t9 l! w8 v! uhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]# O! u4 E2 Z& p! L3 P3 q: \0 l
8 l- H' F% Y% {And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More; n0 R5 B$ K4 ?6 k" S1 J. f8 H
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction: M/ b: Y8 J% j- I, O
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( \- H) z, w$ ~% Q8 yBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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' X! t$ a( x! a; I9 `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.) Q% f7 ?9 I; u
( O. z4 B( ]) [+ m r; uJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.3 a3 I' H2 ?$ U# R- d' p% Q& y
' y7 k$ T% d5 z0 m, JBut 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 $560,000.
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' T5 o \" e) _3 ]" h2 gThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”/ |' Q% G9 r* {" {3 }
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The winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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3 m4 b. S8 b$ B* PThe 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 $50,000." a; ^9 V1 j4 Y0 U' J$ b- `
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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.# i; C! \) q. B% J+ `
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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.. z' [- F L4 T y- q; F
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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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