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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。/ _9 z& o9 Y3 M7 w5 x
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。' q) z, U6 L. M" O+ V# ?/ e
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。
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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( z- \+ m2 k4 `: o# |And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More- b! K- X/ V) V- X/ k; w/ ^
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction v, h3 h3 S9 a( r v6 h
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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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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) P! d! j% g# \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 $560,000.7 W7 k: k2 _ ^7 [ W: w
+ c7 L4 t$ O& l! c6 R y* b7 m8 ^* d% wThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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4 y* [' k! C- `6 e. B8 L, r- T# {“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.”; X1 \; J7 B. V$ o( d
/ W8 N' S- h8 w7 q8 }9 B% SThe 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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/ v2 p; I- p7 R1 _“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.4 M% T* [5 W* [7 i, J; M& E
% o. r8 s i w B& R& Y9 o* Y* [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.( X( a* `* A+ S
' W! k+ K6 j4 r- b: {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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“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