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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
+ S$ q9 h7 O( r' F0 Z22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。
1 T$ b9 E( x$ S带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。8 C* I* N. H) {! \. j& u$ E Z4 J
) u" L0 |5 |- o+ a( a/ z( Z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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3 D Z$ N6 g# }2 JAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More1 T7 O7 s6 E$ r0 y
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.
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# g) g P5 ~( T5 c4 v E. @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.
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.( l9 g% `+ f3 I* d! B1 S1 F
4 A% b; s, U$ j4 GBut 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 $560,000.. q9 \: f' F+ O
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.+ H5 K( x. j* n6 M" t% l% Q
+ L R& {! q; L- T9 h2 P. h“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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# v5 G% p% e; E/ }6 w4 }$ H/ _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.
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$ ^& ?8 \' ~+ g“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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/ G) U R. _3 A4 P" V( eThe 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 $50,000.9 R4 F' }- K* O: e3 p$ g9 b
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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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& ?' ^2 P+ V" J" ~5 R5 F% aStill, 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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