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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。( z2 m" I3 P8 L% K& o* q
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。( D: B: G# e) ^
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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2 u: z* x0 e! \9 S! c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。! G- @) d5 F- Z1 f
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]; G& ?5 |! _ y9 g# p# _) D
1 }) _1 B( ~! G4 M8 |And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
5 w( X7 Q+ ~! L" o% @Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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' m5 a3 K1 n! UBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.7 K) e& o9 t0 W0 o) v' ~. D3 S
# {4 B$ t/ y& u; I9 m( X2 Q& g6 HA 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.& O* |2 h6 }6 l/ A! \: m% E
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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 $560,000.
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! @: p+ B) W, E0 z; D( v( QThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.* l5 i) T' W$ Q4 v+ L; G; f Q$ j3 ?
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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.”2 V7 n p0 R: N, g7 K% p
9 l$ E$ ^0 b/ T; p9 L* XThe 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.' w" I- }- h4 I. Y3 i& p
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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* w& Z9 n: m" ~/ d" c/ [( UThe 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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) z- ^6 K5 G8 m& TMr. 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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# k* \$ J8 L) \2 L* ^2 _3 CStill, 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.5 M8 W1 |% P' g
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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