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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
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带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。! m2 W! |4 H9 k) p2 Q" G8 n
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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。, L9 K2 J% u t8 C; h
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.8 c; R, }' i% B3 R
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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.- Y' c# E4 `, A" v
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.) J. n. G( s# n% ?7 ~0 l
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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.& O, b: w. V9 w* B8 V6 A
$ {& [$ f( m; ^! B1 RThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city., w/ d/ L. l: D( ]2 _: e
0 F. S& Y$ J$ a B6 U“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.”
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( M. N: p8 U1 ^* |- G3 r4 UThe 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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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.# }7 R' R' ?9 F S! B' n# x
1 V! \( g, ~' Q4 }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.* G) ?7 ^' q. m; f6 q. v3 c
1 R5 N, H) |! y+ V+ 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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