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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
5 Y% u6 X2 _8 l' k1 Y22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。: Z! K1 Y9 W' b
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。; }" N5 ?5 s8 X# `& D- E2 I
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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。/ t3 ^7 |$ M. l% p# C: ~+ Q
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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0 i4 P8 ^6 Y( B, |4 O5 X+ s1 mAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
0 _1 f) {8 t. y" h2 e+ U) ]" f& VTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction T+ H% Z! K+ q+ N4 G
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0 s b. Y" B4 Z4 J. q2 XBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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2 z+ ^5 `- `5 r) ?! EA 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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( j3 c( I0 T5 N& H3 ~Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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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 $560,000.* x" }. ~( e0 E$ u
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.. S# C9 H* J x u8 l/ B1 R
" v. x9 s: E% T: m0 \2 x“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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7 G2 b; W/ |8 @# c/ g) E. q1 _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.! M. K6 {" h+ |! `8 {
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.3 s& `8 _4 ]. r1 ]0 q. m% c2 m
+ K3 Y: F! I" J5 f P7 CThe 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.- J6 z" w# t4 b1 O/ U' a9 F' P: A
6 j- }" X0 \: `# Q3 \. |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.
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3 j. t7 S% \" ~( r% T) I“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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