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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。6 t* M; I1 P% a s
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。
% I: | y0 I1 ?5 q带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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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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# K" v0 f9 x4 F; \2 ]" Chttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]- Z$ J/ X( P. U6 ?) i0 K( O
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
4 @( u5 `: n; e. JTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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3 t5 @, r/ w* z" }BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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1 W8 e% `2 j/ n$ I* x9 WA 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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3 p. C0 o6 n; ?: t4 fJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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4 U# b$ M; Y# }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 $560,000.
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7 m* m }; s; t! G1 |# P$ IThe 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.”, e0 L0 t& p% T
, K' G$ u; b4 {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." M% u; Y7 \3 x1 e/ I3 v6 C
3 {; p. @# @4 Y6 s3 }8 f9 _* Q“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.1 ~& f( |9 v7 i7 W
2 Y6 }1 u% x: q: q, OThe 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 $50,000.5 d' ^+ g( y0 q( C) l e3 K
! }+ b2 D. h, Z# U* Q, P; ~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.
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# a4 \' P) `/ s9 r7 `+ `7 TStill, 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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@' r8 h- V( s5 s1 V5 i. ]“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