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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。) ]2 Q- s! B5 b$ J/ D
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。
4 `) R* n% ?3 }, D' m带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。0 O9 U4 ^) x: c+ r
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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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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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; m) ~+ Y. e; x. mAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More. K) Q Y: X1 \+ ?6 K
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction- r- K. |7 O4 a" ~% Y' ?, ?2 w
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1 A5 k; V9 w+ _* {- VBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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i! B t( [2 D- B% C, RA 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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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.3 j/ [* q! }. `( I% e, n- c. W
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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 $560,000.0 l7 L) i2 B' f7 B F
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.8 k3 h) ~; j$ q. u( n
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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.”9 W$ x% l# X0 x7 a
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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.5 @; { f( X9 ^8 j/ z( \
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.* {: s: m0 K) e6 _( Z5 X6 p0 a
9 M. s% G( K8 ^; X0 U$ ]# K% f5 F2 {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 $50,000.; o( T2 m( n' c% o w% S
9 v$ N5 |% J7 D B, E! UMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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) ~; A$ K4 U+ I$ |/ e) ZStill, 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.3 k. Q$ l/ r# m3 @2 ~
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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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