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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
* k% T2 J0 U! J3 L# d M0 ~4 j22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。
* S3 T+ {3 C+ J# l" _9 b1 R0 W7 O, K' ~带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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5 O1 E6 H y6 U7 V5 k* }! i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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. J, f. f& T; |( i8 @6 u& NTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.0 Y% c$ ]' a. l# }4 k, f
( L% M; e0 r9 I" `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.! H/ e' `' m+ V
) q7 N6 e7 ~0 W) T: \Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.& i, ]3 V4 H+ O4 E* y% x' j/ R
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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 $560,000., r# H. s7 E, l: N$ [
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city., u3 ?6 @+ T. w
# S C/ v: C) f' R9 S“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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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.
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, I3 u: O) k" L( [2 x“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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( r N7 J7 X; q( k4 DThe 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 $50,000.
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$ p8 E2 E2 R' _% LMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.! }3 M8 L, l; m. U1 ?
# z+ F9 y; F# ]! I8 d3 PStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience. ~$ w* f% M' Y
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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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