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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
- l! Y/ N% q9 J+ `, g6 Q% z22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。) W$ P1 F. c8 }, ]; X( R2 U( X
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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& v# R! K# m* G4 Z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。& x( d! x% T- f. v3 A$ z3 j
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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( _! }# k/ v; v
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction* }9 [6 v3 d. v5 h" u
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1 y" w8 B4 v4 ?BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.3 I8 R3 C, y! q; t9 R* w8 L
; B; j$ ~) n5 b4 b$ @; 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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! Q4 y# p8 V% u- e# SJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.; J! S9 m: s9 A% V0 I6 g
+ E8 Q/ U- A( yBut 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.% O% ?; i, c Z" c/ n6 \
8 {- U6 T2 Z4 \5 i“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.
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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4 H9 }7 U7 W6 z! t+ _/ _8 S, sThe 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 $50,000.7 w) D) q- c; _" B
z1 R. {3 T. Y9 V0 AMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.9 F% T: {1 _, j$ X$ |8 \& U- Y
Y! A" o, 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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