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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
4 |% t1 G+ R+ `3 d- w/ W5 J22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。
" Q0 Q9 U+ i6 h: x带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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6 y$ J$ l6 v. B1 m8 o2 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。
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8 W3 ~& m( H" x6 _http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]& o1 L, ~( ]" d
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More+ N& u' J2 w; Y4 ^
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction' f6 K2 R/ u$ \
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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8 @: L+ Z: a* l1 I3 EA 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./ D8 U6 j& H3 K( Y
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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/ }& s% Y$ @, sBut 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 $560,000.; R, ~8 G0 I. W- N0 n; x
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.8 A7 b' r) M$ u' A1 D
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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.”1 J& e$ @+ y1 x; @. I
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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. C0 l4 _1 C5 J2 |2 {* }
5 u c( S3 U" l. z* B6 d! J8 X“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.. r4 r+ r3 U" Z$ g, ]4 Y4 Z; j
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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.! L* a' ?+ [' |2 m* R5 F
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.5 i R1 R7 J9 |3 K$ L- Y0 P
! O. ]3 z; K( TStill, 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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& K$ f- C6 W5 n5 J“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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