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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。( s$ N0 ^; y. x2 N
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。$ w% W8 i# y* H ]9 K
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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& x. P4 w A7 W0 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。
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+ o- [) A! U4 R5 X" c6 @) Q3 [4 l) l( qhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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/ ~6 w; g/ e! q/ I& i( o, M1 eAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More, l: d R) z7 m7 ~
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction# X8 ~1 \3 d3 n1 [
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* ^1 g* H3 ^5 H1 {" b; q0 UBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.2 \( _: G A, I1 a" a! m
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A slab of asphalt, a couple of white lines, it often comes as part and parcel of a home purchase without too much thought. But in cities like Boston, parking spaces are at a premium, and prices have been climbing for years. In certain neighborhoods, the price of a home can go up $100,000 or $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.) S3 h: f8 j+ k% ?& y+ q8 k
% y" L3 [, e; @; H3 B3 MBut now, even that has been shattered. At an auction on Thursday, the bidding for a tandem spot — space for two cars, one behind the other — started out at $42,000. It ended 15 minutes later at $560,000.0 Q" ^( v9 B3 g; ^& w
. h, i+ T Q# Z) K( PThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.1 p6 V( g2 I* ]* `4 v
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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# p8 J8 c& R$ Z. k, \) [* f( a* LThe 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.0 i1 A* U9 s2 x
9 U& n/ R+ N+ O5 {“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.. T: _9 C" U: M& y4 Y; m. _0 u% b* i/ N
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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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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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) @- y7 a: S2 ~0 P/ wStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.8 Q( F) N* p. j+ [5 r
4 U. A% e6 ]9 o9 S$ d“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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