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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
% O, x+ ?$ @9 D9 d22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。
( F2 O& M% o( T( D带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。7 ^. \3 v! T! a. N8 f
) c) b2 _6 ~' e' 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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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]8 ]" I$ e3 |. Y) E7 b2 b9 U/ O- k/ j
! _9 t/ ^& u' B5 G7 q$ ]1 [" }4 lAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More" A2 d) g, R7 U
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction( b% ?% ~3 G* h/ L6 B
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% e2 c0 X3 w. q* KBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.2 p$ Y% F: \1 c+ b8 |( v
9 t3 {8 @" p. @; O0 Y/ oA 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.# l" g' M2 ~# |) i' N
3 f; F- @; u5 V' ?/ [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 $560,000.5 a8 z/ Y9 p" L$ T
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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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.”
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9 h( `9 j* v% g. h: `) T. AThe 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.( I! d) g! |6 H
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said., |% A/ {$ i* G& Q7 a. h, ]1 A
) @! V5 j5 `) F8 uThe 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.' l% u1 h* L: Q, b
) {8 R( I l% b% u+ kStill, 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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5 U* k" r/ h. l( [“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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