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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。+ j# {; C/ K& o2 F4 \
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。/ R; o; i- N% |7 i P' S% O
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。5 S, r% s% _: U" V1 I, e
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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。% _$ b/ ?5 n5 {7 W; W4 N+ s; x
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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- }8 i5 Q0 R: c, sAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
. O! M: k6 Y, V1 o" x6 k2 Y1 p, xTwo 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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) [, a- l! F7 s) Z+ A% v2 IA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.) l* d6 N5 V. H$ n9 f7 \5 k
# Q5 j" y0 w3 }% ?Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.1 R! d9 q i( Z+ B5 m) @7 b: R
$ e' k# V/ u# z# X9 z8 e. l% NBut 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 $560,000.( r& C+ ]( p% z3 x6 f
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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The winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.
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% T5 Q! M9 t% v2 c$ s. r' H9 \“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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6 d2 B2 @$ v. b6 L' h) V- X9 SThe 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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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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9 @0 h% \2 } r$ XStill, 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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7 [, W# a' w; V“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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