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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
K9 p' U; d! u" t- X( h0 j/ [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。
9 \% |0 i# D }6 o: Z0 U. [带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。3 j3 t) N+ ~$ E& R8 x/ u
1 ~# y; A: C6 P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。8 f4 o9 J, i( F1 z
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]) i- k' ]1 ]9 N( T9 D) Y8 p
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
- }" b- O! E( ]8 j. V+ `5 _/ PTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction W s/ c& H9 E7 V6 L* t/ V0 Y& n
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.9 a5 d% b) i, |+ {6 u+ N
2 Q; N9 M" g" s$ b# h6 @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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- }- D* X) c/ A- M2 gJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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1 C/ x; L& F* B3 u6 d' vBut 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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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2 y* A( A% r4 q ?0 B3 k“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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) h- g' O6 f' S- YThe winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.' O; X$ O( q( ^; ?% q! i) x) ]
3 q9 i( S6 v$ [0 l2 l“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.# D* r, h: X+ u, m
k. l& d2 }1 C0 hThe 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 $50,000.
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2 d0 h4 `- a8 x# E2 S$ j" uMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.+ _' g3 \: `3 E, H1 z" E" g
1 [( b4 A, q( d6 ?5 _Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.( l$ ?1 s4 k/ r; _
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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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