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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。
+ k% K+ J# \" V% N( M2 n22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。7 h `' B3 M6 r
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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& Q" H' \1 n1 p2 }4 ~5 J1 U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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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More5 J, M8 e0 h) c6 @' G. M6 I
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction5 S) S0 f* a' U/ ]
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, V0 I7 _5 e6 V5 f+ OBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.- M) `' G+ W2 B' O9 b
, j# u' X) F% F! d/ ~1 PA 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 $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.$ x/ G+ l" g/ e# c" M0 p7 M4 P
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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 $560,000.6 J [- {$ K/ A" M' }8 p
3 p0 _" r( I; ^7 S9 ^' s0 U; z! BThe 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.”! t: T- Z/ Y* N) E
8 G( b( H6 _0 g0 |4 G P& F$ p6 CThe 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 k3 G% r9 w; L
6 f8 {4 f4 H/ W! H9 s“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.% O3 p, }( n2 ~/ E* z% m
) N, `1 g& S, n( 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 $50,000.2 a# P" {9 [) s- P- l4 X
" @- @5 r# j5 p% T9 l! BMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second." {; r+ x$ H) @* L& F% ]$ a
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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.7 V2 W |& T) j, g+ X
; ` b7 r$ A2 v/ k“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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发表于 2014-7-24 13:18
富人的行为我们穷人就不用去理解了，前段时间还看到个豪宅，只有2间卧室，却有6个卫生间。据说也是为了方便开party的客人