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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。: c+ V4 C" \* G0 d, E+ M4 G ~
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。
) A+ F( Y$ B, N: z- p带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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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。$ S3 ?% `$ z# [6 K6 `
2 `3 X6 P4 o" f' l! n& A. ^http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]9 A2 N7 @( f r
. G% C/ B) ]. O- W' Q) K# y- pAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More2 c) B4 P/ l, q# h' ~
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction8 y3 H$ n4 {# }* a0 p( b
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, ~6 o: x% g j; f0 x2 FBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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% s4 V' W- P6 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.( Z }3 ~# I' \0 g
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.' O1 H' w' _( w* k/ y5 I
0 ]% Y, I* M( i! ?1 N3 g2 q% PBut 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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% d8 W; d& Q8 U' qThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city./ |) h [' X1 k T% u* h
8 t- z# c+ g6 o" Z# H. }“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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2 f0 s5 Q: G5 h) g# n" h* rThe 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.
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% _( @; I& c/ x“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.& k2 @/ R( G' {
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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.( X" A# U S1 i, z1 E2 z v
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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." Q9 M! b9 Z8 `6 L6 U
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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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, `/ C6 `' ^5 s) }“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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