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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。
* A$ E' Y4 k3 @) g1 N+ N( J9 N B9 [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。' y7 i3 ]! e& C2 w
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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! J! i4 l8 c: Z! {0 q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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0 P* Q1 q% c( x! ], }$ ]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]* v/ N+ |& l9 t# ]: {% h4 U c' @
7 K) a T$ {# s8 }# X6 @1 C. qAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
# a; }* }$ a& u) fTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction; Y0 S3 t- j# N3 g o3 I3 H
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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& J9 p1 B- w; {+ ^; B) k+ n: P8 vA 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.7 U, N5 j) }5 M" Z
8 V+ W/ o; q% e4 }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 $560,000.6 X/ W) g9 p$ w9 L
' H$ ~! d( V9 {! DThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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+ ~9 n5 e5 I0 V“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.”8 q0 L w9 |) \
+ `: E% g# ]& ~, o Z6 L( L& PThe 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.0 B2 C5 a! N( F4 `& ~; V' G% I% ~
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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3 U* f) {" r, LThe 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 $50,000.
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; @1 T, C. F7 I. D$ t: T# D- rMr. 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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8 j0 k0 c( ]* i" I! AStill, 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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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