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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。$ [/ ]5 V8 o+ ~2 M, ~
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。
3 U5 Q( l, a) f. f0 d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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: a. q1 }1 m" |3 J7 j. U3 N3 ahttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More9 [- Z* f& R; }6 U
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction ~1 Z6 G; R- o& Q3 V
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.5 T' L' h$ b. _+ y0 j
1 V9 u, h+ Y8 pA 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.' Y( \* D" q4 Y9 ^ o
* r" D4 v9 s# ABut 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.' s: O& \$ s. q. h
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.4 z2 ]8 t, S# f5 N% R6 D
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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.”
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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.+ I' n8 N: u# K" t4 l
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“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.
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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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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.7 @# r2 @. M, m8 `* l
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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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