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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。, z1 y2 a: g/ j8 g; f- b
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。
1 d1 P2 Q/ z- E, D$ ^带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。3 S' g2 ?. R4 t) u3 q7 Q$ 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。9 _0 v& m' E, i
: F1 f) Q! j; S) Jhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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2 ]0 v- {- g; l7 T% VAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More% c, k3 i- _2 a+ i( }
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction4 K* g, g. n: y" u. f' \3 \2 ^4 R
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7 M5 T- c4 I5 F+ Q% Z& M5 b! GBOSTON — 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.4 Q7 c) }& B/ @3 M8 U
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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- [8 X% ?$ I3 `4 }1 L( qBut 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 $560,000., a. N! g# N; x
& \! R* Y& P4 x0 r0 ?! ]The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.3 P5 h. z1 ~/ l% w/ S1 p' G
1 L+ H9 @& y. @$ w T“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.”+ L* Q) D5 H' l) z" c: y
/ O5 A% s# y. ]+ u& JThe 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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/ F' }5 o7 M# X3 }3 q7 R9 j& q“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.0 Z& n4 F8 ?. ^6 ^' I4 m8 S- T |
+ z0 f$ f: y( K$ A [( 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 $50,000.4 r- n, V5 ]- v7 Y( X
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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.0 N- @9 C; }4 k3 z8 i: d
2 ^ _8 T9 M3 v6 R& wStill, 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.3 W3 K0 C4 d- t8 w: J& s
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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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