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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
) _4 k3 f- M6 `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。
6 h- Q% x4 ?* B9 w8 n9 |- q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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3 P; N. d5 A( f ~0 \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
* w5 F3 U1 @4 ~$ M7 c4 h- g$ }& |0 WTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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( S1 M3 ~3 a& I' K p, t9 j9 EBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.' s( W" G {. D. M
/ X. S% j6 F" _% ]9 y6 w: i! n& S% w/ mA 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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" g5 F* w" k0 V, q3 p F0 iJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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& i' g/ u1 N2 ]7 b" V, wBut 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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.$ z2 ^& D6 N: a4 `$ V4 y" M
, n6 J2 i! \( J! h: m“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.”5 K t" f- _: o. [/ u
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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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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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! P A9 U) Z0 D0 V' O2 c8 x3 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 $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.6 E. I; U% F4 `9 K$ ^
2 q% ~4 O9 v! O1 r( e1 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.
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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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