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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
2 u* m+ x z0 N* x22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。; x) m5 X2 A2 S" v9 f: X
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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1 n7 v3 W/ M7 q! T$ |3 G) bhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
, h0 L" X) J6 i9 nTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction g. g+ |3 `, T; D8 U/ \
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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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. ]- E* u& F; _. X" j n4 } G# sJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.6 Q: Y# N& F. ~$ p. N
6 A- Y5 M( g$ ~# lBut 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 $560,000.5 t2 c+ [. u6 I% C3 |
4 j* e- y9 C6 n9 ?% L2 jThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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$ ^ p: p7 N& v- C9 f% X5 R“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.”$ c% {' k2 q* ~3 l6 |( c; p
# x8 T( D. {1 u6 c1 u% LThe 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.$ C( R/ @2 K! U/ ?
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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( J# N/ K% g0 ?& m/ cThe 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.* N7 H! X( G5 ?: ?
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.) V1 b5 s2 ?" Y1 ]! k
* v# ~8 t2 ~; o r5 f# \Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.! J$ t" [6 J% n1 h8 ]; z
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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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