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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。
( }+ U9 J* L0 }: [# p22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。
& x# u/ h- X5 Z0 s; G带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。6 F$ P' Y/ Q" r/ `( l
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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[]) Y+ d( ^! u$ S5 b( b2 E
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
- D+ `2 Z% {6 l" xTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction$ k( ^! b. b+ ]! ?
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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5 @' b2 t, D5 ]( J: e; O% dA 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.% Q3 ^% Y1 M) F
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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 $560,000.* y+ _9 }' r# `4 ~; N7 T9 E
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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' i/ q4 ~8 `9 s$ R5 D, x“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.”1 { B. @, r$ `0 o) N5 C" j5 _
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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.
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9 b( D; _, D8 k% ?! @“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.5 @ x* Z. L3 [2 j8 v
6 n0 t5 V$ ~" P) AThe 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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4 U/ A" _0 K) E4 L! \Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.0 a( b% a* H; V- n" T; H" M) z
+ ^* E$ a) |% l9 _“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