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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。8 F f( a8 [: L c* d. a
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。% g, _ y+ R' P8 y9 x1 [5 B# |9 l( }
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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0 q1 @7 q" [( r) I- J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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7 Y) Y( Y, r* P+ I! c2 t# Z3 d9 k* TAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More* ?$ ?3 d4 |% Z
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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6 X c5 k* l. x$ YA 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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8 L. a8 F5 K6 B; h6 xJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.# f7 R- c0 O- p, w$ ~4 J2 K
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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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.$ Y. R E n2 _! H. m7 _
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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.”
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( R, [6 R _" _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.# g5 a* {$ ]& p
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.# |" R2 \: W2 X. c
9 t& U! }, W1 S% X w# W% ~ L" EThe 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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- N. B* O0 x7 `. b/ mMr. 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.& B: D5 H8 D! a H! X+ Z* E. r- ?
8 r8 |! b0 F" j: G; g) c* {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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“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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