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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。; I: Y% Z) x( }) h4 V' J' B7 K+ T1 q
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。1 Y5 h1 o" D' o# P
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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% _0 X9 _5 g1 z5 b; F! ]9 K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。! w3 k+ [3 \) `2 G
- s* ?* X5 K$ A1 `: ~6 J4 d. {2 Ohttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]4 ^* @; u& ]4 p0 \) D1 f- [
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Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction: f7 L' t+ s& N
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; t6 K' R8 o4 i9 a# m7 eBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space., r% d P! l) `' p' d) S# a
: k/ @, c- P, O3 b! n' C. N: TA 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.5 o2 H# y* T6 ]7 d. `
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.4 v3 G/ _5 o7 M5 o4 G- O2 P# \1 z. Y
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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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
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The winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.
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$ K7 h, ]2 D2 n$ [8 O# Y“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.# s4 J; a0 j3 L
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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.& x% A' f' y) {( S3 u8 H0 s- u
) e* M" y) e0 l; W5 }# _, HMr. 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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Still, 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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# M/ |+ q0 v1 ?5 ]/ k" a1 {9 |“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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