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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。7 ?6 [9 v# R& h5 y
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。- H8 F3 W& F" t% Y) F' s+ o
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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* X% a4 A, X, `% R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。* x! J7 D: g/ U" |0 o
0 h |- A$ l1 x9 {2 J& U( n' D$ ^http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]1 U% k( r: N0 L# y
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
5 Z# ?% |3 l; L# ?+ kTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction0 M( x/ f) W# c; K
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.& C! @ b" p( s$ R o+ ?
$ |, c: p7 X- G1 b- GA 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.. { x% j/ ~0 p
- a; {, O& e: i1 R i- p1 vJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.% d% R; h7 X0 a' c( s8 i4 M
) Y2 K/ N6 K4 `9 N' Q6 ^- qBut 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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.$ K1 ]! J( U/ Q
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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.”9 l4 ? D# }8 @; }, {7 @, _
* m, {- h2 p$ \3 ~/ ZThe 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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' {6 e# y j0 W7 A“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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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.
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second., c% v+ Y2 [9 z1 d& _3 N! z
8 B, ~( Z$ @6 G& i% F7 { `9 k" N" qStill, 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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: h/ O+ c- q- c“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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