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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
' P+ X- h, Y/ \7 F22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。
W+ L, J" e5 n带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。6 o1 X) |; B. u8 {# P; G. W7 M9 }
; A& L- m% |& P9 }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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. u5 @& w* C! M' w! xhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]$ A$ L) E- Y: T7 K
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
4 g: ^# s/ C0 zTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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9 ^! \3 c& ]% z3 [2 dBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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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.3 i J' p! y8 _3 ^! y: @
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.7 {9 j: |& E, O! t: \% R! N( o
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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 P8 g. d- u' M* F3 ~
: o0 t) C0 g L/ U/ ^( y3 d& t; ~The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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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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8 z1 z, x" y& U* }' S5 a' OThe 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.+ e1 K# P0 q6 S4 P4 W. l3 t) I
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.- Z3 F# [# n* G, ~
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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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3 y3 P; r+ E! U' h7 M( b) w5 |1 LMr. 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.7 S7 t# S( `5 w7 B i. K9 i
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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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