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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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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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8 n% l+ q* P1 D: b' i' M2 J6 h+ v4 _4 Uhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]2 P% J9 C4 u, n2 h
/ ]8 o2 k/ d) S2 ^% y5 GAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
& u1 ~- M- }" I) z+ _6 vTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction2 I( T+ \( F) E; G
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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3 O+ f( B; a2 [1 I! VA 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.8 d) p7 R) U4 r2 q/ F: {5 U
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record." f3 Y# T6 P3 E6 N0 o ~( f6 W0 @' [
5 j2 n3 N4 ]9 U$ @& Q" ?9 k, YBut 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./ y( Z8 G7 V0 ]. W! U7 b3 {
+ o' ^/ { B6 @# VThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city. ^% Y6 M% N; |/ [2 L1 \
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“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.”% r" e) s1 W: T* n. L
; _2 v+ Q6 b9 d0 _, SThe 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.% ?9 g) [7 Q) W: l9 \' Z* U3 N: U. _1 _
6 P9 `4 r* C8 H& p“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.* b- N9 W: Y0 \+ B& s/ R8 G
* I5 Y: \4 U5 K o5 h1 |! LThe 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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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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7 c( Y [( o7 H) w, ~Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.) w" b" c! s2 L! }5 ~. o! H
; e* f! {$ @/ n7 J; g9 m“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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