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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
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带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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- ?; B2 t2 Q" K1 Q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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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More/ a: I/ s: W7 j' D: i# R) }
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction. J: E9 E- H; L8 F! S5 g0 w
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.( f9 @8 A0 _. C+ U: c
7 a( B: @( z! f* v. {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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.$ z( B" M* V" P& l
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.$ |6 [9 v( ?2 A+ ~- y0 f
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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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.- r* \6 F4 {, O& D
+ M8 f+ Z/ s/ t1 p0 o# }, k- n“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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5 E: Q2 ~6 |$ O# j1 `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.! q% D- p! T! p/ i! X. Q
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.8 X, D$ ?8 V( G H% L/ H1 y
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The 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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0 a ~& t' X7 x- w0 O8 gMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.6 \3 {4 y( q$ C7 c6 Z# }7 ]
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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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" |2 X( r% F, K' n“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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