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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。% W! ]& p! E! w+ k, m
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。
1 c" g5 P& ~0 [2 \带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。3 h" N |1 D" h' N8 m& S
& ^- m$ m( m- h* ^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[]
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1 {2 s0 a2 u: U) rAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
& [7 P/ C( ~# ] a) r% c. @Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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! D) f, Q) j1 }6 K: RBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space., }. ^ Y) ]! S
( T4 ?6 Q3 X3 P( g. 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.
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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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.( W _/ m S& l( V1 R9 n
}2 j- V' P) |, E/ W$ L5 B# S“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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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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& W+ ~0 D: n9 t' N x“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.9 b6 N4 s" f! d
W N8 P O5 X4 e$ xThe 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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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.9 a) A5 C R; x& B3 V
3 S* v) I; j0 V! R( P$ H+ ]0 B- @" KStill, 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 J2 i6 ?1 B0 b1 u3 \
, L0 l! x( t: H' V. q9 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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