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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
$ _* X( X5 P* e$ e$ q. S22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。
" \# Z( y. |1 q9 W9 a# P6 W! \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[]+ I6 J, x) L+ H; j
8 B; S+ c9 J$ SAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More* ^6 E9 Z" L, Q6 h+ u8 c
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction$ I+ U. v( m0 X d7 V9 X M% T
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1 B! G8 c3 P8 HBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.0 u; ^1 k$ c8 |$ n; h" q
: F# E# ]' ]: a0 \- {$ y' M. KA 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 $560,000.- O( F) j! w: w" i# p/ ` b
8 Y0 U: d( ~9 C4 L' y. Z+ n. mThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.: Z: i7 K% w0 X# }* P
0 a& J* D" S5 K1 e“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”, Y' d; g! ^' _0 Q+ \% e
, n0 K0 P+ D' t1 U ^$ J: h" WThe 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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/ D; M- _3 i' I# W# M. o“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.# R/ K: @3 m5 g! q5 }
+ m5 ~' Z k J$ r$ eThe 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.& @* a* d; G3 e
; W+ t# N! t1 R/ X: |1 uMr. 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.
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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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