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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。, \/ g' s) f3 @. d7 r, E; w& v
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。
% Q: y' p, X: c' j. n, _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。
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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 More0 y7 J! d8 A% f0 f1 r E# n
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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6 V- ?4 ^: w) @' B$ w; w$ E3 PBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.5 x5 X1 X# D, S2 {5 R0 @( n
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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.
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" y# z) v4 j! u( W( vJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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$ A' c: ?. p3 B9 n( ]0 E. {& P" 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 $560,000.
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2 D- z( u% S/ N) c. p1 KThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.4 H4 q; n$ ]! J: k
9 v1 Y4 g" z* l6 w“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.”# L+ }/ ^% Y4 c J0 e$ x4 U
3 f$ V5 Z* y1 V `/ [1 QThe 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.) \, O. o* d& |$ k
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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1 b3 p- P, I8 ^* ~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.
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' u, k. G: K0 ~1 pMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.% k" k: s7 F5 R# d
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Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.$ n& L/ `- u/ I# c" r9 @
- Q2 G8 }( t) ^; y, H3 P# i1 q9 }“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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