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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
' M$ O1 e5 Y3 c22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。/ p- h' D; I- {
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。/ m6 \( M9 a* B" j4 q* |- |" `
( }9 U9 R& N3 `; r& |/ P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。3 w, g( _1 r; @/ k A& s4 S; W
; f+ }) h, ~! Z, j9 s, Uhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]& y8 x% P) }2 \* i( [
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
0 g2 R: O( j" sTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction" [8 F4 b2 T: z% D a* x6 W
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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.
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, f, d' m6 u& K) J0 EJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.( S) a! M- \% M8 A
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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 $560,000.
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1 u% ?5 R, m1 r9 A$ [The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.. t( d) |( ^$ v3 @( B( Z( o6 h
/ k- N2 s) I* D! k, j9 O“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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- C8 w' |: X, ~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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; W3 I4 m1 O w“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.* q1 e9 D o: j3 {7 W1 c
w: w: V5 G6 h [8 j4 J& ]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.+ v, N, c! K# R: B4 W2 h
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.9 ~; q* y2 w8 u- R
1 X: g: ?! S" `5 G# y) MStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.+ M6 V$ p8 ~% u5 ^
4 m: o$ s( \ 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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