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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
" m+ Y$ u. K3 B8 b8 _# r22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。
: r% D7 O- b K# N1 z) U! S5 I带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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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。# s' r% ]5 Q. t: I& w; X$ i
! T+ a3 R6 v# c1 c; X8 qhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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& p) ~! ?7 a1 ^! r! I$ w1 Z4 KAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More6 w% h' L" U' N4 \' a. a: ], u
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction* g9 S! N' [, T$ q" j P7 E4 M$ _
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* I! | b4 L4 Z) I, GBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space. z6 o- H& \+ m: ^, m8 v
# ^4 q2 _0 Q z3 @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.
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5 O7 k+ t9 u0 F; WBut 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 P% i5 H/ N# h8 d. ~
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.) }7 O: r4 @# V I8 O3 J, j
, n- {7 k/ v6 X7 W+ b% J {“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.”0 Z' C' I. R/ R% w% M; e
0 C8 ^* l1 A. Z" a4 R! @; Q# R! a, h5 ]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.6 S& R% G; ^6 N. ^
# Z2 T; U/ P9 f“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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5 y8 i: z4 b! a0 IThe 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 $50,000.6 H8 B' T. o' H3 j; Y! ~
# K$ v; h2 R, ^$ b6 L" w. v( vMr. 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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Still, 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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- L: j, Y9 W7 ` y- }1 a) u“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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