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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。
Z$ F7 L8 c; R+ s# L% u$ n' J- z+ l22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。 k, k" o8 c5 q, _4 Q. P' d
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。. C* r# D. |; ^) H$ c+ w
# T; R% P% a# L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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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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1 N3 a# O# o& s3 O7 f. n, fAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More* Z4 b! _) h. d: f; {
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction: k7 f* t- \% K* B& |9 `6 k; J
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# n. j( ^) J2 t& X( }: [1 c/ i; cBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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# V2 M# p5 b( `8 H+ H2 F0 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.
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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% e7 h, r7 ~2 _$ Q8 L+ ]8 XBut 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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O/ l, R" ~# K" J2 R# TThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.4 K: u1 T1 ?9 h g! }, U
, ~/ C3 H) j% [0 N0 Z( B“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.”% @+ w ~% C( }( @' Y
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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.+ s0 U! r* [/ K/ ]" F& y& q) i
B6 K0 k7 o) b9 T“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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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 $50,000., i+ p/ R, |9 e/ d$ R
+ \8 X0 a) R" k( g6 V2 CMr. 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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% m |3 }' D4 E- BStill, 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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" p6 n- h# A4 P& W; ]“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