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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
% ]. D9 _( q( d) Y! @3 G# V22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。
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' L- V/ ~- \% H/ o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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6 p5 T" |& Y! g3 b5 B9 Phttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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' {9 w5 a3 a9 E1 p' gAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
9 e8 q c" @6 b1 C) W& D' HTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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# F4 ]$ a. e3 t6 _" BBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.1 k5 C5 N0 z( m% h+ E" G H; k; m
1 @! p8 l! |- h5 u) }% JA 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.3 ? a- @+ e( G7 Z
! t' E0 |1 s- t8 q' L1 v7 pJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.$ |' j- D, r; g- j5 `- a) V& }' {
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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 $560,000.
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* D: D! {. h5 u! R# L) O' pThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”6 X- ]9 d6 A. P4 e) m
8 `8 ~2 L! `8 n4 YThe winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.0 E! P& N8 ?$ Z" k1 n" R1 o: V9 M
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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4 o9 ?9 b. | P% d" Z9 |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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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.
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9 Z3 g" Y' c3 _9 H5 nStill, 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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