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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
`( L, W9 x0 k4 A; 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。$ W" `: D7 g6 c4 P+ P
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。& k' _$ k6 Z" _
1 E# H" I2 Y& [: s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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& @" Z7 p" z- m+ L+ phttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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5 G8 N6 |+ H- M2 N: ?+ b0 \. G, gAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
2 P% ]$ V4 Y( x+ \Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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; V5 `; r+ O4 c8 S5 K# JBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.) \: ?7 {: f8 I4 d. z: g3 C
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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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m3 z \" n( K2 \Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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7 m, m- x9 j5 f. z( Z& o, S: HBut 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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5 \ S8 h0 l y% D6 _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.9 M1 c5 a7 t# R9 R# G) ]
) P* _" ]5 g! d, Q“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 $50,000.4 y7 L7 ~4 ^1 y
8 p {8 v& c5 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.! m H* ^ a U
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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+ c! j" w) T' E+ c& M4 W4 k
+ K' W: x! V( L0 m. f/ U8 `. Q! M1 a' l“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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