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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
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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。! v/ g0 s2 t% E
6 D0 ^4 g) t& L% X qhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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" H- x/ Q. @7 F/ b2 J% d3 G" DAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
+ ~8 r5 b6 L E; i, Z& p3 N: hTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction* z1 F4 r8 O( m; [! V$ {2 v7 _5 x
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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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6 |& g( k( \1 @! \Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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/ K) @% R8 @2 M( F3 d X/ ^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 $560,000.; e) u3 B* ?0 W5 S# h6 T
) Y9 N+ o( L2 Q- U9 G: eThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.( ]4 O/ J( A* u0 }* p+ i% _
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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, N3 A9 ]- w f$ L: _* BThe 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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$ U) m0 t1 A0 v0 X" D9 x+ C/ W3 a“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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The 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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4 o1 i, A: n1 p( {4 H3 s9 vMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.$ W" D" R+ d, Z5 K! p I: O
, s# v2 ^, N+ @: N9 s# }“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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