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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
6 K2 o" z0 y0 _( I0 R( d22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。
* \$ S( n" [- I" T5 J带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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7 _* B) W% j+ W! z1 f4 `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。 b: `" i" F( I
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]2 m5 B" _# [, o& P0 j+ w {
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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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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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.: l4 @$ @' E6 B% G
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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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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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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0 q. l9 b T. X“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”# G$ M, |5 Q+ O7 ?. ?. g0 I: e. W
: C5 J) V( D* [* Z- O# `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., \$ l( Q- z9 W' c5 T8 t+ n
* t3 E, W6 X$ D, g, l+ i: w“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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k O' Y# d- e% F% Z" ^, P8 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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: C+ M- m! e4 Z& u( rMr. 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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0 h( L1 |- ]/ QStill, 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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3 W: W+ w5 I: l5 b. t7 L/ `% E: D“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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