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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。1 u2 V. q# R0 M* C' Y2 `
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。
6 U( f. i% |, n- k4 U6 w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。+ y* T& F3 q/ H% X" E% @- G
# W; B6 T9 t: r4 w* rhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]6 p3 ?2 ^2 Q, B( Z# {! @! \- t1 d
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More! i6 f7 u0 S6 o
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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% r ~/ o1 Q! X& a6 w* jBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.9 _! g8 B# ^; B' j* m# P7 m6 D
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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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! w: ~& h3 { z/ m( VJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record., ]. h- x; H; k- a( i X$ n
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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 $560,000.
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- J+ S2 X, x6 {6 q! g- f. kThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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5 V$ J5 W2 M1 B& q; b3 K/ [4 j“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.”; L) l" M& J* {% y; X
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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.# V# r/ \3 y+ E O0 N/ Y- N
6 B2 V) c: j! x. G4 y9 b“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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( r2 i; }) q8 o, D1 V, 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 $50,000.6 W8 B- o" M9 }1 X
: v+ E4 X" q5 O) t. c( T8 eMr. 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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: S' N" U7 F, @' R K6 {9 M4 J“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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