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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
( r& j6 |) n$ V/ K1 x6 _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。
2 J' W3 d. J$ }( Y$ L带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。9 s) O+ X' Y+ Q
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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。$ ]( F! T: I" V% k' v, ~! S
$ [$ s% W2 A+ _6 f, n* nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More" d, c8 D/ N" ~& A
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./ X# v3 z' n7 X" B; V
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A 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.3 Q5 _; Y8 X: c1 x. x+ O1 t( t. N
0 O0 E6 F( v1 O; `1 f# k, fJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”- E5 V o% o) k: g8 q. F" W
9 O+ b! |0 h0 T" ]: K# T! TThe winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.3 E# G2 R2 c0 {3 [. ^6 T6 F4 Q4 t/ o
& [$ u7 [3 Y, H- i9 P2 j6 |The 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 $50,000.( G, C: S' x" e% X$ w
( ]2 V4 _0 o+ H* K# l8 iMr. 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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( M; ]6 x' b u; m; B0 U' LStill, 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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