 鲜花( 1181)  鸡蛋( 48)
|
4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
( U2 U6 P2 L, b1 B) q22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。5 W4 B: M$ q7 o3 w9 e
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
: e, H0 ^$ b5 Q0 q& j" |( g9 n3 [. _1 G# b
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 O$ t. m0 m0 p7 W
2 ?0 P; \: k, n6 W" e5 dhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]; |" _. Q. v( b/ R6 l. p
6 K4 F6 g1 t; i) n7 M- Z( H
And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More; l" h% _; E0 G; F- L2 H
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
/ j Z+ L7 Q# a5 i5 L( f0 E4 q) @" p8 h, | i4 Z4 o/ j) n) _
' K& k+ `) r6 u- d! C# p
7 ]6 G" Y; \# V# S% pBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
2 ]$ d: X& U# r2 f- j2 a# x2 q1 P0 p! H
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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.- X+ v0 X' Y' E& R0 d5 A- s
* s+ Y$ M/ w, Q0 X
Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.9 \. I" E! r- H( U/ c5 j4 n
& p }2 a0 I: O3 k7 u1 l) S" KBut 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 $560,000.8 k6 M5 k0 e( R( x+ [! x m4 D
! I% E8 d3 r9 a& @The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.) r! o7 J1 V9 i# N' y8 j! C7 Y
6 z2 I' }* l! {, r
“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”
8 M6 m% B4 b: ?& o, q% _
, v( g4 [1 I0 a0 I& Q% k$ P& lThe 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.
; l T" L# Z3 t, \: N1 V: C' p6 @& h" x6 @0 Q5 M1 q. q. d* C
“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.( k% U$ U& l9 ?) T( Z! X
* `% i: W' g) @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 $50,000.
1 ^ b9 p$ ?4 Y# Z+ ^) ]( q# X( P# g( Y& q# D3 C
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.
/ c5 l4 w0 A. o( Q, H/ ^+ E- O
& ]& F: r% N6 eStill, 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.
5 V" ^# q0 J* \$ |! o- g+ @0 F' T/ {( F+ e
“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. |
|