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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
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带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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" ~ B0 ?8 e2 ?& ~2 ]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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* t3 E5 l7 D: B' G6 ^ xhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
- Z( X/ ~/ i P1 m0 m* o) oTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction. F5 A* {9 w" I8 ~8 `
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- X+ D' p# @) C9 a3 nBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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7 c6 h. O- ]! W5 P" a7 Q$ ZA 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 $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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2 |6 _4 G7 |3 n0 U# Y' b$ {# ~, ]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 $560,000., k- _; m4 J, I0 G, r2 T3 A
! D; o* h8 Y# e- u6 g4 dThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.2 a0 e$ `# H. u3 Z1 [
" H9 d- G r& v+ Z“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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8 W4 ?$ ?- ^7 X! U! U3 N) pThe 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.& m |0 i/ H3 L* o; W- F
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.) W& T8 \0 J7 E7 C5 w
& N: d# P/ a# h* n% t2 s+ t$ S! `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 $50,000.0 |# r6 X& c% k! k* T& B
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.) H/ I7 L# P$ B3 p1 m) h
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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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