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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。4 Y- ~9 k* S0 F) V9 i4 q: m; 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。
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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。) V0 [ z% I1 J+ h4 h
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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Two 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.0 n! D6 W( m+ V) |7 x5 u2 c% M
' e; P) B- m1 y t! AA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.' g m* Y$ L% P; a9 X6 w' j
, T D! `" E( ^7 JJaws 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.; l! |% L1 F! i0 b
# r7 |( z4 _8 M, E# E( E) t“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.; F! \0 S/ `- f
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.) H. ]2 p' n' S! ]
( e" e7 H. X) O8 i& \$ A1 i9 {7 {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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C; D) v! _5 q8 `0 lMr. 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 P. b6 c8 d5 ^8 q6 b0 p
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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.3 L1 q8 _ \) f, q$ l( T/ Q
" E0 u4 t0 x/ }$ I7 ^7 x“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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