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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。9 p8 W1 b' k( _2 r/ b$ U+ _2 w: g a
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction- x% S' E+ p! t( s! ^" @8 E/ }$ ^
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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3 J, t5 p1 C: g. l0 ^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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.
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5 r$ l0 M O& S1 c$ V& cJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.- K! B3 Z, u; p9 `0 F3 Q
1 U- g# W* x/ S! f1 J8 DBut 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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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5 u$ X( m) R. V$ j3 \5 ]“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.”8 L1 ~! g8 h& n2 }$ b3 F
g9 N. Q6 l1 |0 h0 g3 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.
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( M/ h- _: k6 \- u3 v“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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. O. h8 f$ p6 ^6 k9 sThe 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 $50,000.3 P9 r: L, ` }' n9 N/ d
) q- |3 N! J3 T, CMr. 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.9 w& y1 w2 i7 e" u; w
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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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