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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。* t7 C3 A+ O) A+ d9 g* Z% `
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。- U" U2 j2 ]" l( z
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。+ g+ G7 ^# L+ E# _- ?2 `+ T, u) p
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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。
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( |- G; J' @% c9 K/ `1 N& [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
! i, |) T' g) N$ nTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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$ B! `5 U6 s0 j/ F/ k5 N' wBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.0 ]2 i3 i* d4 z& ?" w
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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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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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6 A5 V# }! G% C( d; qBut 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 $560,000.) t' m, P1 k4 [5 V. y6 e, _
2 ?1 \. j/ d( `; P' v6 ]The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.7 h5 w4 z, k w. `3 Y. y i E
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”1 A% a- [3 F! `) {( n, G: w5 L
0 C1 X* o: C; Z! VThe winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.
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- p! h$ z/ b1 u* N H. _# h( z“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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; t- @1 l h3 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.
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9 D% _: _# y# u8 ~" ~/ c/ o2 YStill, 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.; O7 W0 a! C: Z8 N
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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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