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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。# t$ H1 u& \* r
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。
! `/ W0 Z1 n. ?+ @4 k带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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; y+ q R6 ]5 H! E9 }+ D. i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。& x" Q$ ^5 `0 S" t6 u( ^4 G% u
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]6 a( Y+ w8 D! Q/ W3 w7 y e# q( _
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More! w0 Z% O! @- i+ j: W4 Y( d
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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6 |7 n; h5 ]) ?9 S! R/ @BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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- E. x: V% V! ]" e2 y5 z% wA 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.2 h& J/ G! z k* w2 \ z: b
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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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 $560,000.; b/ _. D. C7 }$ L9 @
\% S4 t. i6 v* B9 JThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.: i: R3 Y% x7 r/ v. ?
. Z0 R- B! z) H- O“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.”4 }, i1 L# h! G& Y
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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.& s9 `4 R% ]" {" ` W. [/ q+ r
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.9 z, _4 P' X0 a; L, O, \
4 k7 V7 k5 u* r4 q p) C8 S& h2 {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 $50,000.
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/ ?- v; [6 o$ g0 q0 DMr. 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.
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5 C- G& G; Z: g+ A+ _& n“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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