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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。0 v; l+ R/ S/ }, a
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。9 S) Z$ @2 A) u9 U. `2 O. N
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。. C6 c2 _, m7 h% x
2 c. D6 O) z' \+ G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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" N. g4 r6 J6 ]" m' D$ ghttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More6 z+ e2 N v/ Y4 v, U
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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* t6 F5 R, I( r1 [9 L9 x) xBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.* B. w& \1 Y& k) I
* y& S& g2 N+ U, x$ |3 Z+ MA 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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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 $560,000." ~7 V4 N3 Z+ l6 K
3 r* K& D+ y9 c1 dThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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/ ]) `7 F5 Q9 s: D% Y4 V; ` f“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”6 L) U# X0 E2 m: d$ {9 w4 ~% ]( K
8 K+ R+ o# b( n1 N: f5 VThe 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.$ E# T7 V! V6 t% U5 O0 X) H
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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 $50,000.8 ~+ n, p# w! t s
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.$ P1 `) w$ ^1 d$ @
; d9 f! o4 u$ W& }4 q2 i$ [. HStill, 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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