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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
0 M9 I! f9 t8 O* I$ z22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。
; f3 [* x) |) O# ~4 y0 U带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。$ d y& |- f$ ^) [; E/ g1 _7 m& l( V
& h% n. d3 V2 D6 v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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) z+ [2 m+ t6 r, K; o! }+ s% Y! jAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More$ u4 ?# l: _4 u" v' d5 {! z. W% P
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction' _/ }* L# [# p1 m
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.; D; i6 R2 z1 e. t5 h
# L" B2 K. S' t* @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.# a! s' d' z# `2 Z; k
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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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7 j% q) e t. p# C/ V* n% X/ l3 P9 BBut 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 $560,000.; G3 n0 y% g+ S
) V: a+ S0 ], i2 K+ a4 vThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.6 k z4 F8 i$ {* l" n. u6 c
" c& x/ ^6 {$ g7 g9 c) X2 i' J“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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1 f) _+ j" I+ c& 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.) z; q' S5 ?' p8 Y) b$ M4 N
& R& [) H/ P( W6 o' `“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.; @) u H( {0 z" k: u$ Y
5 ^& N& y* p: o: h* U6 cThe 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.
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. n! x/ M' i L8 \. w# o: `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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+ Q6 d0 q0 ~# r7 |4 t" c0 R“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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