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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。3 K" n H# {1 i% Q: [! c; T' X
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。
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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。
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" E' `! E4 O H9 B2 A! [+ }http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]4 M' u) X- w0 p8 m7 _6 ~
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More2 G# o) ]$ s" v8 R
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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9 {: v6 K, x5 S; M- {$ ]$ b1 LA 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.
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- F7 G. V7 O# D7 a) NBut 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 $560,000.4 H* H' N: P' s- q! D! H H
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.4 z* v) ?# g/ b0 s1 ~8 r& x
$ t% [: G( i2 w“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.
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! q0 l! y* B9 Q( I* Y# `“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.7 i4 x# u# z/ _) l0 O) w. Z
( H8 M. q2 B4 r9 j' ?$ y: ZThe 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 $50,000.+ n# N4 y' Y6 X$ h
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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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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.; P; l' a- a" q+ ~
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“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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