 鲜花( 1181)  鸡蛋( 48)
|
4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。& l0 G1 [! A: A* y
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。
; l6 c7 ~" R0 K2 t' z2 ]带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。+ u0 ]6 m p4 t: F- y
/ B. }0 @. p. E& M7 x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。. J% U3 S9 r% Z% I" q& R% n7 F9 V
- z8 t* o0 r! f4 u( ^
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
1 `( s- _% E* @' M# @
2 @0 H" ^' `$ `& r3 A- T5 V1 cAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More$ Q2 P( N! B, n: Q
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
! u8 @4 ^1 }" x" b9 @2 N C- i5 ]" ~1 G* Q0 r, B

+ v, H* ?5 p+ m/ a+ v6 ]5 T% Y5 ]% c( X/ K7 }: C* i
BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space., m' e# x" c5 i, e
7 G' G( b. ~9 v
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./ o6 [ g5 f+ u% ^3 u. o" k. W
* n7 q h- u# n4 M& z% d
Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record., a7 E* d$ q0 P) { w& G
+ [9 p# u6 P! [) y2 L( ~5 WBut 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.
- Z* ?. d# W' o1 ?5 v
6 b2 x" o" C# s" }/ YThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
G; o4 |5 F% M2 u/ F, k: ?2 w
3 P; e' G4 p1 h& {5 M* R# `“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.”* \! P* K" o3 r" @; C% |
/ `( u. s3 f( D+ `
The 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.! b1 Y7 M7 v% s! g6 ]4 T3 [8 H
2 k+ k2 r& L; n6 {
“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
8 d% m/ S: t) l, T; l/ y0 q2 u9 ]/ f. E" y& ]
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.
1 n- d6 d7 {9 K9 X, z4 h- ?# ]- Q# }- {
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 Y0 q- G7 ^5 E! D6 I4 Z- V/ y8 ~5 J5 v( j0 @
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.
0 D# I* T* ^& c2 S2 Y
. w" G2 k; i% T& J2 {“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. |
|