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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。; g% W( Q8 {( c
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。& r! t6 `5 o5 R. [4 p5 X1 E, d
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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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。
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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- `; m3 e4 D: {1 E2 GAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
/ }1 o! h% N+ UTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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7 u$ h# y8 x; X- k; u1 r1 B5 DA 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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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.& `; b3 H* L9 i) V/ M
r6 V* V, g9 `, K2 Y% pBut 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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4 n5 M& s* S# @% S* ^4 K; `The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city. G' a0 R c) l7 }4 e" n7 P! i
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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.”. i( d- y& C# B7 |8 c' l5 u; V
1 ~% U7 i% ?6 D3 i) _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.
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6 s5 I* P C, X5 D9 q“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.+ M* w. E( H4 X! i! b1 X
/ u* k* o j; z: yThe 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. Z) Z7 A8 u. R9 b" x5 K
" A4 X* i. k, ~ i0 Z: D- CMr. 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.+ }8 \" n% j" f
0 J/ q4 q. E `( i/ A) z" uStill, 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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“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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