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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。$ H1 n: O) W d
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。. R0 k; h; v& b0 M9 u) T
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。; u, l G, v: B n |4 H. r4 O# V9 v
/ n* |/ ^% T- s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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7 \3 J; O) z! ~http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]& E1 J$ m, w! t
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
' {# d( B. A3 ^, |8 pTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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: b+ C( D' O& rBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.7 e+ ^9 v$ |( i6 b3 ~
( N+ B1 }# {2 EA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.4 |$ n& z6 A: T" }
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.3 h2 E8 v( Q2 B. h6 p% a W
! L9 l8 C' Z" E; ?! y; p& ~7 SBut 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 $560,000.* ]4 T9 l# Q2 C* A5 Q: t+ n h
- Z. c% V/ s" ?" p! xThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.; m* M% q" V/ c$ u; }3 Q
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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.”1 O0 Q. H* }% a' l3 r
8 Y+ s( v4 z4 V* j* }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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# T# G% Z1 e! S0 w$ p1 r“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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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 $50,000.- D- f! v% Z, i8 }0 A. J
& j2 D" E$ f% R' z# F) F' h3 Y) yMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.3 \. A+ P4 W1 D* B7 n
{. a8 M8 r. gStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.! f: ]! Q4 \! N7 b
3 _) l1 B$ @# n3 `8 R2 _“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