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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。0 t% i+ G" R& u' u/ M" J
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。8 {8 A7 O2 e3 {6 o
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。+ T4 R9 a1 h) {; V& ?5 Z5 h
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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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; m3 C _' A* G( {- Y8 n0 ohttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]+ d" z& ]1 E' i! F& D1 _
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More( ?0 v( I1 D; W5 J# U: t' z7 J; h
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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9 V. e% K# q; W EBOSTON — 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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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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$ L/ G. W+ d+ t: o$ {. \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 $560,000.
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, e: ]! c/ m8 y0 A$ kThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.0 B G/ h$ c7 i$ I( V, C8 ^: N
; s$ B% a; t# [# L, Q+ F$ D4 i“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.5 @- m; E2 e8 m" G
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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; [3 V# U1 p$ n4 yThe 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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9 V/ J3 X' l/ y" O; VMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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$ a: s- h2 x, s9 V- m6 vStill, 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.% V( f5 s) m% b; Y! \( [
& w2 m+ e/ O K( L3 e“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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