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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
9 y$ G: a4 ]2 `- N; N22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。
% V! \4 l' z1 V: C9 K$ i# A带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。. b/ R3 z+ M9 W; p" g5 S8 `
+ f! L Y+ D* ?) d0 U: M8 j: H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。" B2 C, h1 P! B5 P6 Y% x! J
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]; ^1 z: x) o' K( \# m: B! \
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More7 k: A1 `3 `9 @1 w
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction. h" G5 `4 t5 I; r: e! [( J
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.+ b% b+ ^( b+ C+ S3 A, p' g6 m
* b: t6 U) B6 H( RA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.# j2 C" q9 R. w
+ {: @ n# s! o, F* C6 M$ f% `3 {Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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" N9 u% v9 S, r- Y1 ~; bBut 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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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6 c4 S! l( K6 o; N S“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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1 ?- K9 t7 Q7 P$ t% 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.3 j6 a" U& I4 e- k+ b7 \4 @0 _
: H. h6 Q# S$ s; b( ~6 R“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.
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, g3 k+ f5 h8 z% g5 W% {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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/ k, P6 x) h6 H( Q/ m: F6 |1 p. o r: 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.. \. t; z+ e' T N( d2 d
' E2 [ Q# D' I“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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