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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。$ P4 D/ g: O/ d1 Z0 T
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。9 R8 d2 @( ^6 v
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。! e! _; W) j6 ^0 t8 O& l
- Q* g+ D }9 f5 i8 t6 H# Z# f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。3 _3 ?4 E7 I3 u0 h, L# v' o
/ r/ J$ I' \# P& N0 d8 fhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More# Q9 x2 \! F, k, w. f
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.: i9 o$ A; U' F; r1 D$ T. j
9 d# Q" ^6 ]. C7 o" ~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.! ?% W& l' A8 d7 k
" Z' G. s! h& j4 tJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.* J$ u" q x5 ~& h1 u
, ^4 X! Z9 K6 V& T( e/ H0 dBut 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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& T% [9 e0 [5 c7 c9 J l' n" |+ o“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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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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6 A/ F/ j- y5 g1 O+ DThe 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 $50,000.
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- r, N& B! J$ L* K% D0 Q3 SMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.& R7 V% k; R! z& s
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Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.$ n; B) G' w9 D4 t5 _, T% a, n
9 D* X$ C8 b& c“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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