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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。3 l4 A- Q7 J# ^3 E% ? [/ g
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。7 l& v( H" h2 \6 o2 {6 P' W) `8 {
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。& N1 g+ @% W+ H: ^2 E
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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。' u: h B) T& |* [( k* b
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]4 D3 H4 e q# @, V, c4 p
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+ O# ]. n/ R) d F4 G1 {7 G$ eTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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6 b4 S a6 o# @0 X1 j. `# e. kBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space." Q {0 {! r, n* [1 E
0 M9 h& p$ k$ M" a9 X# U; TA 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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. r: V* I1 Y3 r( n, IJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.( p. D" I h. n) `- y
. m5 b: P$ o4 J3 _ v3 GBut 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 $560,000.5 m8 v& f# B* m2 S1 A7 Y
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.4 e2 A) A7 { o t# `) v* g
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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.”
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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.; M0 T; x( ~& U& T3 Z1 k5 k* m S
& M" F& w) d t, L6 ?“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.8 M1 l5 u3 [& z3 n; _
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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.
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.3 W$ P- _9 ~; N- [* U f
. E6 O# s9 n3 n6 _7 ~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.# |; r# L8 b- `% j5 ?- ^! B' V4 U
0 K& I4 l; P" u$ V5 S“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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