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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。& T- ^; O6 v3 R1 @3 c
22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。, a; \. o& g' n% j
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。. h% R3 W/ s5 X* ~- ~' ^
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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。2 _+ U) ^. R V: o& e6 X
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More7 e$ O7 K2 }# V1 F1 ]
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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$ G# f& H% d6 OBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.# w$ D, r* E' K3 x$ P! y
. _- U4 O1 b, z9 @$ U$ D3 L9 d/ gA 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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.
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- C1 E! v$ y. s( c/ O" ~1 A6 sJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.9 v( F% I, @ G9 P- p- N
9 |3 E0 K9 f+ G. H9 f7 dBut 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./ S! d+ \0 n# D0 U) }- }
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city." p8 @% p F9 K( x
& w+ z, p7 _, V& Y3 n“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.”* ?5 j3 h3 u! E+ B) b3 W
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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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8 C J ^% j+ }7 r/ a5 Q“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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# O0 T( |. X2 ^9 `1 mThe 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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7 e6 v3 R/ q' DMr. 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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5 a! l& v# V9 [1 }' GStill, 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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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