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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
S! [% U; k. k2 i22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。
: P4 I; A: Q5 P带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。+ M9 F! U0 A! j. F! h0 K
' K' k% R+ q8 X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。' S# b! ? d& Y$ ~
0 w" S/ o0 w* D Y0 Qhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
, h, e( u9 P7 U8 c) w! Z( oTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction7 c5 A+ l$ T% ^* b7 W* i8 u" G K
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BOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.9 f: P; c# o) f! m. M( l |" f
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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 $200,000 if parking is included, which it often is not, only adding pressure to the supply and demand crunch that drives prices up further.2 e( T* V. q! g2 {# h9 O$ B
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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.) k1 P1 \; ~0 ` O8 b0 f* @
. T( _5 } R# K" o" _1 g2 pBut 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 $560,000.) N/ n4 Y5 d( z3 J5 O/ U4 F
- c) T6 x; m3 @/ T2 Y$ x; IThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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8 b7 x+ D% I( v& D“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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* k y6 y; _2 V! B* u* O0 h“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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P3 v. N/ D! GThe 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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" G7 N1 ~8 L: KMr. 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.
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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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