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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。2 Q* c3 z7 x8 b1 Y5 ^' m9 c
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。9 m% X* q! x' H- r2 t+ i8 O
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。7 ?2 h: T T( X- @& x
! G9 e4 @6 y; s% Q* d' S, h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。% w% w' P: u( W2 I
) {$ k4 R) G& F0 M4 K4 `http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]9 f" I: h9 {" Q( q
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( B8 o( v4 \8 L) J" l( ~+ O5 N3 zTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction# [) w* O$ k+ L& W4 P* O0 F
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, E1 y. e" p: r: K+ c0 i/ ~/ S/ t: UBOSTON — 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.
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.1 e% x. o3 [4 D
* \$ v8 C/ Y+ h3 tBut 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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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* K& S0 c+ o9 j* OThe winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.* {) o$ q4 w* ?" J
' ?4 n$ I( ~+ |( ?7 j' t1 `“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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+ }" }* b# ] KThe 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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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.; j$ X5 @& u( l+ \$ l8 G
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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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“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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发表于 2014-7-24 13:18
富人的行为我们穷人就不用去理解了，前段时间还看到个豪宅，只有2间卧室，却有6个卫生间。据说也是为了方便开party的客人