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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。7 x, { M9 o; @! H- b L* w* A% {
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。( j( j5 J; V6 r7 O
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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+ W/ u: l- o/ \ d$ N, a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。% ^" F9 m1 n. ^) ?5 |
2 L& _6 H6 x, e( v. i5 @http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]& T v- w* d6 Y4 X& H; a! g, P
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
3 b; Q/ E/ f, B) P& |! f$ b0 u3 OTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction! u% `9 S. }. q. U4 k$ \
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: o8 f+ ]2 }- p; @# r, GBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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/ ~( H% B. O. X8 p) x: x* |. GA 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 `% W; J9 e2 `0 \ zJaws 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 $560,000.5 h& e; l0 N. w3 T6 |% r6 T& _! ^
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city. W( V W, ^' E- |3 a% s" S- r8 B2 ^
; B( E4 ^8 p/ ~“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”( c: K$ e4 z$ F/ b4 [7 ^
, e0 A. y6 v# d: ^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.) j$ r1 A0 c6 M! X9 `7 S) A
1 ^ Z! S; I, L- \6 t“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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5 p6 W% q5 c# i. b% ZThe 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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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second." [0 l4 |+ v2 p5 P. U0 C
* W$ W, S& l' hStill, 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.! f$ _/ w# l- o" {( o( ^
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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