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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。0 c6 ]$ E+ N8 ?' r$ v Y
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。/ _- M3 H9 A5 T+ N- i
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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: ]8 L7 A' @( V) Y9 r) r. F* V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。" Z @$ c# D7 M$ o& u% G3 m$ D4 z
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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8 L( L% V! ?. |' ]. f( b' B# |And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
. R/ z1 c9 I/ s, ]Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.$ m) `# w& W0 y- y, q+ B6 G# o: ]
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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 $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.4 d! m! e b/ T- D( e ], `( V
# _0 |/ \0 Z2 o* `3 `/ E$ _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 $560,000.+ M# b" @1 p9 O, A" Z; W7 p" S
H1 C3 p' K5 U2 Q4 M) d# n. g1 G- kThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.3 F( t; }, p- t3 B2 H
6 Z) c, _, p9 h' D* u' Y2 ?“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”( \: W# l' ?5 ]4 F
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The winning bidder, Lisa Blumenthal, lives next door in a multimillion-dollar single-family home that already has three parking spots. She told The Boston Globe that the auction was a rare chance to acquire more parking for guests and workers, though she did not expect the bidding to run so high.( ~6 W5 ~$ }) M# \
6 k( i8 g; C/ @* R6 Q4 z“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.1 N- E$ t6 u }+ ^ @6 Z# n1 t
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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.- ]5 L; y5 b2 r7 v
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.- T2 ?/ v6 w$ ^6 A" \7 N
+ X2 z5 d- T* P* S+ I: D: XStill, 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.' v6 J; F2 l1 }
) s1 u# T1 i7 S# C“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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