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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。: }3 ~: f: O, ^; u3 S! y" ^9 `
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。( o; a4 E$ f! O- G, h- n
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。7 q% a' Z+ c) w, v2 Y7 F8 L8 n
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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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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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* k/ K/ j, N( S% wAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More8 U( V9 @+ X2 ?7 ^2 I! R
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction8 } W! N3 \- _3 C' s. O
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space." ^/ \9 V/ b' r# t
# U& i7 q9 G8 s- FA 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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6 D& m9 t0 F% LBut 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 $560,000.
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: Q0 o3 i4 y1 o+ `+ j" H8 uThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.$ ^! |( d* ?6 J9 s* L7 y8 i% a
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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.”) Q9 C6 Z4 k# L5 @
7 \7 o! S. H5 n# H. DThe 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.5 @3 c1 N& m6 b) w% |
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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& `; V @; i5 E, fThe 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.! O. `8 g) C/ O. P7 h
: K. [# Q; D7 O/ l4 }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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8 l% l5 W# j2 I5 y( LStill, 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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" ^7 d7 ^. n z# l: R1 y“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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