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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
M9 M* c; m# C: ]: M4 E22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。' _# u. F1 _, y. d1 E- }
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。! ~8 J" k# D& b
2 z/ U: u4 i7 T0 |9 {* L9 g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。4 ], l5 y& i8 H, ]# W) w$ p* k
) F8 I$ i* k& ^9 U+ Ohttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]; m2 R' G/ R4 N5 N5 P# c
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# B: j9 G% d/ t- HTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction5 {3 u6 v( I) ], X2 b
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# ]8 A* p* k- @- L: l' R2 m dBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.; t5 t- D; C7 v0 ?9 c# N Z
! o. c* }% f2 M; R, |2 x: M0 dA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.& `$ r' P" q2 z: s) \4 E
" e/ _8 D/ z) A2 S& a3 ?' mJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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7 i/ D5 `; f: q" lBut 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.”
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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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# F5 a! {! S" G“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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, q8 |8 y) @/ f1 @6 YMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.& m! l$ I$ R @% z& @2 d
+ k; h* }" A, H0 K. ~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." U3 a1 C3 O+ ^# f$ N
9 I8 c$ n8 t9 m. t6 r“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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