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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。
* _) @* z5 V3 H! G7 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。' Z; w* @* t' ~" \4 Q
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。$ O+ i0 `( }) W' K1 l! x
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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。" o% s a, {. m, t; Z8 l8 E
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]/ ~ I$ @, [5 _6 @! m
. Q8 V6 a4 E' r: p9 OAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
) d. D7 {" R, ?* k; m9 L8 QTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.6 \" K9 n6 |, l* _" B4 D- g' P
* \1 ~3 Q( `* Y. MA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further., M6 N$ n+ B" D* ^" Q
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.. q2 r& K6 f- G( m- B1 N
% e% J! z7 F" e+ Q4 SBut 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 $560,000.; I3 u- |7 Z4 y& o8 z0 N, Z; p1 `
+ o p6 n/ v! q5 a5 w; YThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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+ c& R' V# \. U9 I“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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5 \3 [1 E2 q% X3 }1 l# Y2 PThe winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.. h6 p1 e5 h4 r3 q: i9 c: j7 q5 |
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.2 I) S$ A/ q# U
- W' a# G( T f4 z8 ~' c V2 nThe 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 $50,000.5 e' O# {, Y) P/ ]9 P3 \
y0 w. \$ p& eMr. 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.7 O- R( r# X+ d. ?) G9 W3 C/ V1 C
( p \3 Z5 a) D7 t# iStill, 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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) e; j8 y% Q! c“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