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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。; F( n+ Z1 n) ?5 u' e5 j" m
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。
3 i# v3 B. @4 k7 V" |/ f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。
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* n" O* t) b4 R* {4 q; R- mhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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% b& f) u* C1 |And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More5 K8 t! v3 B4 T0 D) W- ~. F8 J4 ~
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction# D( ]. u: J6 l8 p6 W
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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# \+ [- t' c5 O j9 ZA 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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: V4 \6 Y& R+ O7 ]6 h& B, i0 |Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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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 $560,000.0 f5 R4 R" D( P" W2 t
! H- ?+ K) U$ q( Y- E% OThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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6 j7 L, V2 B6 F* P: L“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.”) ~* V) M% C: r; a8 {' u& c
$ I+ N3 ?9 M0 ?; |* Y' t6 ^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.0 w" a4 @; Z: n% S E
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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; e; u* {- H1 a' `- l' s$ 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.) V) r/ f2 a' ~
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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.* K# B* [* H X) Z2 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.* t6 r, i8 F. m5 m x0 R
4 [& q% h! ]8 c8 z' n* X“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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