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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
( \$ L+ r; L+ H9 T }; Q5 X22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。
6 W a8 \. D) ?- g0 j5 R带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。9 S% }1 l, b6 k; i
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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。$ _, k# U* v3 o0 j- J, n; V& _, c) k
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]: E6 n2 U. B* `
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More( [3 F% b. n# z; |
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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3 z& L1 u- _% H6 BBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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) V( z& |2 `: }. K1 e1 E: tA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.
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' T" y* R) U: Y" h$ I' A9 ?Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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" M- h! S; `) ]3 A0 z4 ? p; WBut 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.% X4 r- w6 ?" Y+ C: u; G5 h
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.4 ]% N1 {( j3 d; D1 ~+ }
! I6 w8 e" h/ }+ ^. N0 h* g- 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.”
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2 P4 F8 e" t+ F: J* E( ]* RThe 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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/ k5 ^+ j a& b9 g5 D* L# A“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.# q7 y, F6 @( \2 ?
* C/ S0 j6 t% ?4 g8 ~, ]* PThe 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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l/ @* r. ?: j5 E9 ]- ?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.
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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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