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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。7 r; Y. ?" ^5 w
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。0 J0 u; ~% |5 \' H9 G5 ]
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。$ x0 D N; C$ f
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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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" m3 I' V. F( K1 u" ]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]+ E) p. c) z5 v. m' D
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More8 H. [8 y% U; l6 D- 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.: C0 A5 \8 d: ]! o% \- l
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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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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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4 r2 F% H- |: m/ ?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 $560,000.( u0 U% f; w( M4 M w2 S
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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- y. g2 R3 c2 \4 ^& t& V4 I3 D8 @! C“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”! ^, l* l& X3 b, o! \0 N" j
1 @; |4 D! D$ C5 ]1 P8 N/ n2 _5 hThe 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.% k% @) O* i) b: J! V& m) m
) _ I& j2 z) { a“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.1 Z) r( A z* K, ?3 W% f! m! ]
) D: x. p7 o c, a( n8 tThe 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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+ x. \) k; N9 z9 x+ J$ B3 j5 v% ^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." L w9 m* v x4 y
6 ~3 E# Y. H2 s7 a7 oStill, 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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“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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发表于 2014-7-24 13:18
富人的行为我们穷人就不用去理解了，前段时间还看到个豪宅，只有2间卧室，却有6个卫生间。据说也是为了方便开party的客人