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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
$ p; G" }+ [* _. m X& t22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。
( `0 Y2 k& e. f' p9 c4 B' f带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。( \6 K9 ^) A( K, p# p9 D9 c8 l4 K
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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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7 G8 V+ o9 A! U* B' k' P. b9 khttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]8 c0 l0 h5 o: N% t% z% x
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* I: [) {; y0 l0 u( H% h" nTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction8 C% z8 V1 S# ~- ?! i
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.: O z. j% J. I8 \, E( A# x
3 a4 E: D# a& ~A 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.# z2 j! I4 ~1 }1 x2 r
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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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.7 d2 K' _ w" i; o
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”4 n; s& R4 r; r, }
2 a4 q/ M t8 r& L; w$ z$ qThe 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.; J+ T5 k6 g5 p
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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.) w; `2 ~8 `6 |4 n' B7 S# ]# f
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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.6 ?4 ^* `; E6 I* \
9 F0 F' t" T2 @# M3 PStill, 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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) B8 `& `' `6 ?: V1 ^+ j6 K“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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