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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。
( G3 X% D" d* \7 l) |* h22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。5 |( J) s0 B6 Z% P9 ]
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。- W* b# B, N/ ~, O; |
; Y* U* r9 x, I0 P2 K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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' L3 [+ N* N& A+ F w6 X8 A: Jhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More8 [, M$ X( f8 x3 ^9 G' y
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction1 R. r/ Q" j [0 ?1 t7 X1 ~8 M
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space." i& U) M$ \6 U+ k' w
: ~9 b( }, r. L W5 l3 N% @7 TA 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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( T8 D. d8 V( X6 ^Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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; A8 O% ~7 N# V# y( q( X: ]# ^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 $560,000.2 h/ a. _& L% A" @% c/ U+ {
6 t7 _% ?# N: g5 jThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.9 {) f, i+ M7 l" J m* h
- a( n9 E& Q: }( V“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”4 r0 ~$ T g7 {9 N" W+ t* N
: K% h8 \- Z: N( b# X' f) W2 _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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0 M0 \* N+ M O$ w( y6 B( r“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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' O h3 S) a- D! I. V* ?; WThe 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.) u5 I! q! E; @! m
- I4 N; m' h9 K" {9 |: V6 CMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.' a8 Y: v! Y6 ]
; b$ y( m( @% y$ yStill, 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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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