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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
1 q: H- u: a: a# f8 K/ m22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。: K. o- `% S2 z& \6 L" O: R8 w* K' G& P
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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0 o9 U1 E1 U/ x! B; a: x: }# N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。2 I3 X* V( }; U1 S6 G7 W% T( V" h. B
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More& h8 k. e5 h" m& I& G0 }
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction" L% I, O/ K+ p8 A. F- r9 U
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, h' K R7 }5 f) a& aBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space. X! g% Z- R9 y% b
+ D7 s3 }7 h; R$ y1 n! GA 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.' w/ _2 E) ]& `6 O! W) ~
" Y+ [7 \% h( A! | ?+ g5 p4 HJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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8 i" q T$ N1 T% b/ y8 \9 ]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 $560,000.9 Z6 k% J8 p3 _) l3 k
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.' c ^$ M6 z0 _, @$ C2 F
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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.: L/ O0 r/ v5 d* F
2 M/ g) C) P# Q' ?+ S. f“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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5 t) @0 X, J& F* Q2 e' N: jThe 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 $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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2 h$ e, }) s5 J" X x* `1 GStill, 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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; @6 g4 i% X' t8 a* J+ S3 V“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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