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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
) w6 \' G7 X! _- e3 @6 B22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。
1 Z' h% [+ n) ^$ @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。1 |5 l1 A) M) ]- P8 h
v' a9 a j; L; `7 ghttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]9 s# @* R5 r6 G
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" M/ M8 l# N# Z) g7 z6 U1 yTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction% |' P4 R3 H* ]
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. P0 w8 O8 e1 CBOSTON — 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.
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# a9 p* H+ Q0 ]. }2 e* s1 _7 J8 o+ mJaws 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 $560,000.
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1 N- g8 d0 R4 @ k, p6 i; lThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.6 z0 @$ H# h4 p8 b% E- t! K! K
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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.”1 R8 V1 V3 k7 K; e( B) M U
+ G2 }0 T' }( D* uThe 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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" {6 |" h( j: V0 F“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.1 l. K; s7 L$ y0 R9 D8 T
. `7 i1 H( A# E$ GThe 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.' p4 [; j+ B% `4 a
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.$ O4 y+ Z+ U7 [7 `
5 c% h/ O. Q; z3 RStill, 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." M% J* Y- z/ u
4 T2 E7 v, k" B* q“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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