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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
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+ u- O; L. S+ |* }" C7 k带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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( c& R1 _$ g. x. V( P0 b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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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]" A* }3 T# a- S2 P
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
! [8 g" w' N+ j+ _9 {2 kTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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# y: G' U1 c. PBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space., w! W8 _7 r. J" e
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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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/ i& y& [ `% {/ T+ z! Y2 JJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.- J+ l8 S" _0 o% c& G
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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 $560,000.: H2 T6 \. F8 k( N6 @) ]" I o
1 T" [- o5 P1 P5 \- zThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.. D# W e4 r* C- h5 }2 C) u
/ ~& p* Y8 B* i* W) O4 ?- _“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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The winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.! W: L+ |' q1 h
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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1 L K' L7 j5 K! Z$ r8 }) W! eThe 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 $50,000.. |# e2 B; }' l0 N& z$ D
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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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% l0 G3 K) N' K5 v2 _* z0 c- zStill, 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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r/ B; V9 _, l* ]& Y6 w/ A: @. x“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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