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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
$ d' w/ c/ {! R5 V22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。
$ o' E$ I7 H* T J" S' F带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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- ?6 n8 _; Z: c& g1 s4 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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& g3 `4 g- g, nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]+ C' {8 u2 i0 L" [
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1 ^# @, w9 |4 PTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.+ L4 z/ n5 G$ e) F& @$ s
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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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Jaws 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 $560,000.7 T5 G% d: w; s
+ q, I4 m, _1 W" n1 U6 u$ k! uThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.9 J: M. F" N% K; \
& Y# v" Y6 |7 [, f9 P1 ]“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. y) g+ S5 t1 ^, o- z' w
! P( Q" K5 c: z7 g4 Z; J! b9 JThe 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.- f$ j) u7 W5 Y% z- W
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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8 M/ T1 W! F0 `/ ^8 t. Y9 ^$ SThe 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 $50,000.3 [5 ~3 Z( b$ e5 }) f
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.8 ?$ }' ] M `) A7 w
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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.0 D: W) R( |2 {* k2 L" t F5 v
0 a+ I3 m, b' @/ B5 ?; V( V7 s/ Y“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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