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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。 ?5 Y, g( C% S2 E/ i; s
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。1 }/ T- s; ?0 G$ o. d1 L/ h- C9 H
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。8 _( |% B& E7 e* @- x& v
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More+ J; y% w$ }/ O
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.. ?# g6 V3 w% x1 g- b+ H
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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.2 L4 M" c3 o0 e' }0 p% D& j
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.. Y$ p. x7 G& B+ t
' I) j8 z5 p% Y6 k; A2 {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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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7 g. o0 ]4 O% u' Q# d N2 ~! C“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.”: \3 T% q/ w) b. X/ M2 Q6 }& ]4 ?
7 G3 e5 g$ [& l3 C" O8 j, k: @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.1 o# G& S; x- |' |
e0 e( M$ t7 u1 A+ P* L4 W# r“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.5 _: P" i, N( x; W f4 p9 ^
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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 $50,000.) `* I6 j* @+ E: [9 p
7 G' H5 H+ T3 K' o4 j$ |2 n5 pMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.( x1 X1 ~. ]$ @0 T% Q
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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.. N. \ `- i. f1 k
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“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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