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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
, B z: P" u u4 g22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。
/ T6 k4 j: |5 Z9 s. ?/ F1 o, C/ L: U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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, ]1 s9 Y0 |8 {0 X0 ]And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More8 W$ b. |/ E5 g
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction; G8 r8 G" R u* q" O8 J
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.2 g+ W: R6 g- z, q( I" {, k- |
( |; C- L) R) M! O* {+ \' 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.
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9 g9 t9 J7 e/ D8 `" E$ x/ l4 S2 QJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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4 |4 O% P3 @; Z+ [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 $560,000.
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; ]. l$ B. H! s' I0 [: vThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.+ f# n: q# E( l0 u# F0 `, h" g
$ d, d8 Y, A1 E* J! J S0 n: r“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.”$ y# y2 T+ `& a( j& t+ [
5 s2 } @! T/ F7 WThe 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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2 V2 e- F; i, r$ F! R* ]& i7 J“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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& Q3 C$ P% g2 g% I0 nThe 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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. l7 W) ~+ z F7 A. ~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. @9 C4 {( X3 G. @- g1 Z, V1 A
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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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