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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
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w {6 m- C/ k带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。7 S ?, E( {3 k7 s: j
; s+ X8 A1 q( m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。/ ^3 y( u, }9 c. M
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]! y- M2 h- f5 j4 l4 @ L9 Y* X/ K
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) A4 O! g5 b# V+ {4 g- ^Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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6 U2 e( d$ J5 L, w; ?. ]: ?BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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+ h e7 e! G, P& i$ z1 qA 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.- e, y* U, h. Q4 Y2 [5 g* e
8 ~3 D ]+ R6 v ~9 i6 vJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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& h6 |6 }, j0 W0 |5 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 $560,000.+ U! F& j8 A9 z& L8 Z X
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.( S- Z; B6 O4 F3 [7 Q* ^8 _3 ?
7 t' k! N9 V3 \2 Y [“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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The winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.5 z: f n& l1 _/ D
, g& u6 Q8 J' I“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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" I3 j6 w; m; @; y% [! D) t. _$ m6 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 $50,000.3 ]) z/ u. H- d) ?# |2 [
4 ~; i) O, T. H/ w0 Z6 yMr. 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.
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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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