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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。 c/ U9 H! F1 [8 Q& o4 o/ M ^5 e
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。
" C0 ?. ?, D. |) g6 I+ e8 [ T% V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[]4 w; I7 r9 d- ~2 w
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
1 L2 A9 n" I; l2 UTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction+ A- a" h& ?, j2 K7 V3 h: a' c
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, J7 t; e7 T& f/ iBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space., k, H& u) Q, x
2 r4 { _" v) l/ H0 u# z. K7 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.! g k7 k( a4 R- B' E7 ~
: q0 H6 k3 j4 U. p/ O! j/ TJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.3 r: i7 K( J: h) B& I1 t7 W R4 U
% V. Q6 H$ j/ N1 o7 u" 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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.# W- |2 G0 D2 H$ V5 x9 u& A- I
; x3 x; L8 `+ K# g& F! U( d5 m h“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.0 J6 L% V4 m3 t' H- d P; ~
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.- I6 w" G5 u# t+ y
- U1 c! ] d; g |7 f! AThe 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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, Z" M. P; ^- C+ {% I; `+ pMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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9 A/ a! m! T8 h& q1 w+ `Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.
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+ C4 J6 I% Z) Q9 s2 s! w) d3 n$ ~“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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