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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。 d3 T5 W# U7 d8 H. T8 L
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。& O0 c" t* I: q) B0 [* k9 Q
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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! B8 t" B3 m3 a6 G& B7 h3 _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[]2 b! i& k( Q" o0 L
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More+ x: Y4 N! E# f* \0 I" K
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction# z% e8 `& H h
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' M, z% d+ P- H. `( V/ y; k$ @BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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4 O& ^5 Y; @& K* PA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.' z+ {! N S$ v) `
- I4 K/ F( ^9 C0 y1 F8 B1 ~Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.( N! f6 B, v/ f( |, X
5 ~% A$ a2 R& P q5 X1 E" ABut 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 $560,000.) [ P4 k2 @7 Z- f0 q
^6 M4 J& E6 SThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city., C6 {) d% l$ G+ d" ^7 ]) B
$ F/ }& D. A8 r v, Z6 o. x“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.”& U( g( J8 [, R
! j0 @* h6 O) l1 ^: t2 q2 v* c+ y2 lThe 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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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.. \$ j8 B0 z0 u4 ], T
& r/ _# N K1 x4 b7 U3 dThe 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.+ u5 }8 B P1 i; n. Y- L7 _3 Q
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Mr. 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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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., N6 G) E* z. Q5 U* f
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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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