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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
' ]3 o+ Q' s2 Q p2 c22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。! T: ^- e& r( v3 r4 o
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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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。3 {. v% O" p, N. G9 z4 d* e
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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 More
: R$ i0 l& W7 Z0 B1 vTwo 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.- _6 {" L' Q, m G7 P
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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.: ~, E1 i7 y, O) f
3 d/ u0 v) G: J4 H! BJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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, T* o; ] n* M% V+ e8 L3 }0 A$ iBut 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 $560,000.
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" N- N3 ^* b3 eThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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* L3 q0 C- M) E+ `) `1 x“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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: A5 v, j7 g- m1 A$ K7 f5 tThe 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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9 b: `% D8 D; Z" z) u- }“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.9 B$ }- `0 O6 x7 g, p
: ]- O/ Y5 `% Q; |0 cThe 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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, h5 B( {8 G4 Q+ w9 }1 Q# U% oStill, 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. ]+ Y8 Y8 R; x7 o
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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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