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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。9 B; E* Z: y2 E: X% C
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。3 B4 V, X S4 i" x+ v0 t
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。7 Y7 x. T' K- E; \+ X, d$ v& c
" j P0 i z& T+ [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[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
8 }* }* c5 D9 T% lTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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1 I, t5 k* m+ E$ X# SBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.; J* O; Y% a; Z
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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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' g5 f+ W3 `. k/ ]+ ?) _( t. ZJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.. a5 L1 v: s; B* S
$ G' _/ C4 T8 Q7 o+ v. ~1 \But 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 $560,000.3 m4 n4 j" b0 |; u m% w" i# \
# ]5 U5 o$ t! DThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.9 L: S8 h, p8 Y, n0 a2 Z9 ]4 N w" o
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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.”1 s3 D' l; N! @! j: f+ B* u
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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.. h3 x& }' L' F& C1 Z! l$ m
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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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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second." c: l& S+ }' t5 P1 S$ V* F! S
$ O9 M& @) {* _3 a+ z6 ]7 a( BStill, 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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2 A$ F4 z4 F* @' `+ ^“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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