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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。. Q5 V, `; J+ r& K9 u
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。7 Q( _, _- P* D8 S6 F! C" }3 k
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。/ l+ {4 Q* F2 [, e+ m
( v# y2 V. a8 I* n+ E2 t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 More2 Y9 m7 i4 k$ T8 v
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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3 P0 X' A* v: Z- n. ABOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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$ @5 |! Y6 x. s4 w6 FA 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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9 R7 Q& u0 }+ _Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.5 ~9 |, \9 y s. L5 |# J! _8 J
6 a' J# @/ B8 T& HBut 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 $560,000.
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( [: G1 f) K7 Y& [- [The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.& ^* w, h4 I- p3 p
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”0 k9 _2 k7 j U2 l: o+ Z( w( K
& c; @0 n. q+ w$ y; M! ?6 |; NThe 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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. M+ a: x) y$ F* P# k8 N“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.4 J* D# y8 Z. j9 F( @5 f
5 @; m3 V# u4 X) vThe 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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! Z7 a% e% _' H1 R% t% t' @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." i( e5 Q0 L; z/ \: q& Z% [( e) Z
. S0 M" F' Q( e6 A5 t" UStill, 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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“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