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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。* ~. }$ y) Z1 y# L! @* F
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。: H' y$ t8 X/ [+ d- v( b
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。) T8 y+ r0 E2 ^ z
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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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8 \/ Q8 }+ p, U4 zhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]" N# F. ?1 j. F
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
' g( f" J( v# w$ M; w4 ETwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction' Q, \ O8 ?7 |* Z. d+ R
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! g& g/ \1 a! RBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.. i. N5 c$ Z/ p
3 E5 F0 n) _# YA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further." m3 ~: N, [4 g5 {% p
5 a% X: Y' \: ^ E- b5 R$ D7 n' oJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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0 }$ _8 x, n2 ^8 V) h; PBut 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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”7 g9 j( b8 B. i/ ?6 v3 U. } U3 C
8 p. P% ^* W5 [$ a: `' LThe 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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* f0 J! F& f( ?+ E0 h1 d% }) f“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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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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3 l3 F4 B8 I& X; X' h$ dStill, 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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4 X& Y, X7 v+ m2 v% a0 G. K; m I“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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