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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
- F, {; Y, q3 M22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。' `' f8 v, s: G+ W1 o8 C6 v
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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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。9 Q- C' p. `" u2 h: E$ J
0 \+ C: F) ]% W5 T! Rhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More" t# [' {. B7 h, z
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction3 N5 b' F0 L: G( }
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9 M% A3 J# o* ]) K8 G: NBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.% d9 @ z- ~8 k6 m* C2 z# a
7 ^9 ?5 Q4 J" j- M9 `# t) IA 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.. Z! Q3 P4 C* v8 T: y
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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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; J7 b" x8 ] J( bBut 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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.& ` B/ ] p; Z! X+ _- T/ q
/ f* X z. ]% q9 J3 e; u! W9 W1 y“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”+ H9 U4 g: O$ _6 i
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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. O* l& x3 k1 s) Q" {5 J, b
0 {+ P+ C$ z M0 z) o8 \6 o“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said." f7 S6 L& }& F# A
+ O7 |4 _, i. s9 X! | }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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/ [# Y" b3 J8 u' {0 F [" z* pMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.5 ~4 O8 Q+ M+ q& j$ X
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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.8 k. e0 \$ j. J2 r3 {" H% T
; k& u- l% k( T- g* }6 L“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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