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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。& m5 G* X9 `( N, X/ J! x/ v
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。 Z! M( y9 }" T5 b! R( y6 Q' ?
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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2 N# F. G9 C/ q; u: ]* H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。, {4 Y( }1 Q1 s
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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! g: v ?7 v& o0 J8 \$ ]: h
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction5 G9 T. B2 z0 z+ Y
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.4 v: v& |, T8 r: v' R0 o) b
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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.% Y+ G: r/ i8 E* o2 D9 m, b, c
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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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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 $560,000.) ~! R( \: Z9 R+ i% d: E
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”4 @/ g( _6 J! W& h! E4 U9 Y
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The winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.7 a- n+ y! J+ V5 E [$ ~' G
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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." ? U4 q( L* }& X
& y& {# }1 G; D' V5 t3 _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.0 L2 i( ^7 i8 W* O
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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.
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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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