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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。) x; k" T1 P$ q9 n
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。
" u4 p6 L$ Z4 Y y带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。$ j& D5 `+ o" x9 ]1 G
7 n8 a0 f' r/ G/ t' t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+ y4 L8 x7 G8 c, _$ u' h
, g: i, [5 Y2 @- chttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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! y; P( I- I7 H% U8 [) Q' J/ XAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More Q1 _: [) E7 q/ S: {
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction$ N3 @6 Z% F! W# H5 _% f( P
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3 y; }% y) c& N! DBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.7 }4 M4 m) a+ N6 `
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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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.
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F; M) U; p5 m8 w0 s$ tJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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7 | M6 w6 @. K# lBut 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 $560,000.$ x, Z; @& M p% X; [
" ^5 G }2 f* e# mThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.( \: G# Q; z9 @ e+ Q
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“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.”" c+ x& X4 B d
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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.8 I- {. H4 v! f5 n4 n; ]
3 i/ b$ U3 ~4 X, t$ G* `“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.! d; E/ G% R7 A$ E5 A4 n
e" G( T" o8 L4 @$ r( A! { [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.# W# ~! \1 r* {/ |# ~' [" @
6 H) O' }+ e" QMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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1 o4 t5 c; M% M0 N# ~; dStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.
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; J- h4 F$ y3 @( p% 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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