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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
- ]9 T5 n" `9 B @5 q9 h/ N! Z22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) U! X) y% S& y( ?带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。+ h0 U `! }2 N2 S! Y; q
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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。3 t7 t2 l4 `1 z3 l6 l
' {9 D9 \! l$ m% T" E7 `, |. Whttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More7 M' q* ^5 j8 e1 ~7 O! J. `' o
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction, K1 M9 o$ Y. F
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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.. p/ r5 a. u, R" Q
' \: U# T/ l& L* nJaws 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 $560,000.
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2 C/ n; L7 ^4 U& DThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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The winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high., y, _) k7 g, l
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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+ L. D% K: m* W9 Z$ wThe 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.; l% v1 `) @4 e- W
8 L' Y ~7 K5 d# a7 ?Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.! h- |2 J: J* m' t! S
+ F5 ?1 J9 L6 s0 s( A& f5 MStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.
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7 m2 B+ y7 o2 w6 O3 p; T, u$ D0 Z3 |“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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