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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。9 i* ^3 g h* P1 s9 Y8 C4 V! k! e
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。
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2 f5 o( A% ~0 M& E* u5 a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。8 A$ n8 h- `% x8 y" l3 X
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]2 N/ S$ J/ H. C* [
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Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction. f: D) _( y2 a* w1 Y
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.& f* V0 ^# K) m8 {2 L$ R1 C7 _
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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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Jaws 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 $560,000.
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^9 l+ h" q3 S# J! uThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.# }( }( C2 F* u8 P& ~7 L
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”. S8 ]2 _" k. s8 w
3 K' f. t) S. H, |$ DThe 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., _* M, z) j+ h( x6 m
1 Z0 t9 s/ ?9 I& O0 Y/ O M" F“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.: I) j4 L" U: H
) {. \8 T# x2 w9 }0 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 $50,000.
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' E% X# B" b$ g. RMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.- z8 B. V/ `; n. Q
5 N3 p4 C: j4 e. IStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.3 v- {0 ]2 r( U- W9 I/ D# @$ z
8 |* T* ^1 \' F3 p* q; }1 t! t“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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