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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
6 [( N4 a; k Y- J0 t22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。, P/ X7 m5 H- D, p- c% O
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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1 \( i; c4 D- J; z0 H9 }* I3 v% N/ F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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( S1 M8 d) M3 t$ W' y, nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]# ~0 D! t3 l: D9 m% x
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
; P4 f8 {4 t B2 d; C! D# qTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction* t' t, p4 U. u+ a9 {) a
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% z& P+ {# U0 tBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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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.
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9 E. H5 B6 A( y! V3 F- TJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.
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) ~- |" O$ Y6 ^9 S9 w1 ZBut 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 $560,000.4 U% F/ U1 K e, h, \
9 K* `3 g. n. U2 e R/ Z4 u& O8 TThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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! c5 Z& f( K% V8 c F1 u“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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( G' k4 {% S# `; v/ S9 R, v% `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.0 H& V; S' }, E1 [
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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( B: L0 g2 s# T9 AThe 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.) _; L3 O/ n: P+ s
. c" V" ^( i5 |6 c2 q9 ^0 XMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.+ h# P* n; Q. P" t+ R8 Q
& m9 C4 k% _1 a9 CStill, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.$ ]$ b/ Z6 D7 p p/ I I% j
" r) m/ i2 q0 k- N. Z/ [/ r7 ]0 m) r& }“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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