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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
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带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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2 P4 [% T% e- t1 W/ j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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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
" }; w! {' |5 |+ p5 aTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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5 o8 K# L3 P' N# aBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.6 P8 y" t; y! g1 [9 ?2 w3 E8 W3 H; B
2 t0 S; P3 r4 |) {9 B# U" w! k5 A9 y) {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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.9 }# u; ?( ?; |3 i( ~
6 t: H$ b" ?9 t# E6 {2 w# TJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.9 @1 \3 |1 ~+ I6 A
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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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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city./ M% |( N0 y0 j- z4 v' b0 p* h
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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.”, ?. Z1 Y5 h% ?! b! s4 X/ x5 k
; i2 {- N! s: G+ V+ f! ~) [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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3 d2 q8 \6 y7 M“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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7 E( @8 j4 G u% o* U% r! @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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6 }" C4 Y4 n- W6 @8 G- d% ^& sMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.8 p. V& r8 h. v% j
: }1 B G u$ v X* j7 E* DStill, 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.) D5 [1 o- z4 z, @
4 N& Q0 e: W8 U6 i7 a, U“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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