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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。: D4 v! M% y2 [7 r8 f
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。! m5 c8 i# q, K1 ]' D8 L
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[]( c0 k7 z7 W$ Y$ ^; A
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/ F* C2 ~, G7 e6 b$ O# PTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction7 r9 K9 j5 a9 I+ N5 k& z. L; h( ?
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- p" s) C( `7 p, L! U$ Q' ]BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space., V3 o: R5 x$ _4 X
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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.
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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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, K3 I' U+ }: y0 b( c" bBut 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 $560,000.2 Z1 V9 ?3 I& c2 u7 L0 ]
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.% Z" F; k1 z9 k: y
$ z$ h, H- Q2 ?# Z“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.”, r( }9 @3 d& I1 T# T! p0 q- n. f/ w
2 n2 s' t4 t5 vThe 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.1 [) u6 o p8 I; j0 g* n
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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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.
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- q# U* y1 L7 H5 O8 X. m9 d0 {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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, d+ v" ]/ \1 e8 TStill, 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.6 N! e. K+ k( t3 V2 ^
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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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