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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
2 ~8 I, t4 X; y1 T. ?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。) D1 c2 u, q. G
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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1 M5 w( [" ?/ v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。4 N' z4 W* w, ~4 u6 s' }3 L
3 z. B# c( `1 ?http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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$ [9 J7 n; N' `5 H9 D* lAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
/ L- x. q) f8 F* NTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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0 ^9 V& {- J1 ^% G0 l( rA 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.5 ]' h- y, Y0 v+ I" E; \! m' Q3 o4 L* O
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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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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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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The winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.
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* Q0 @$ f% ]; ?5 j0 Z9 s4 W" S“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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/ J* i- i; O4 X) qThe 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." \$ _* f" ]4 Q- [/ Z7 x
& a/ r, m( b: w* N. b! ?8 ?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.5 i# I3 x2 `- I0 |" ]2 o" G: T
/ Q3 ^3 x& G; I: T9 s5 Y! BStill, 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.. ~' P( w) ` t2 q* ]1 |. z; i
5 Q2 l) e* i) C“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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