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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。+ V' ^6 l: \- c
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。
6 N8 Y( ?* w3 h) S7 t9 o d带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。8 d$ O W5 `) o& a+ x. T3 K8 h
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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。6 A4 P4 T) N7 A( b5 h+ M( E7 e9 f
0 o. A) H f. ^+ E# R) F' xhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]+ ~" U2 |0 x+ o4 P+ t
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Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction( }$ V( A& _5 x$ \8 O
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.( ?( ~2 C& I s' R9 B9 i
& k& @7 C+ Z( ~2 m. n" CA 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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Jaws 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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% H) \8 E+ I" u( q" 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.”
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8 P/ x. Z4 Y2 y8 f5 o% V7 \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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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.% x9 Z7 m8 C8 y* G1 S, N0 i% ] q
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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 $50,000.4 s/ _/ v5 H) i) t- N
. I' b' ^- {3 P% I* R# AMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.! n2 D# N4 i! S* K( r+ \9 S& b* M
1 U4 U) H9 A! x4 W* AStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.8 p$ W6 [3 K5 |) o8 V
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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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