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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
8 n. Z* T9 t: G% N" u22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! I4 s4 T$ u带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。$ D6 a/ p! u: J+ O/ Q- o
: A, q% H( l& I l! S. h$ Z: g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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2 B' h. N, T4 Ihttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]
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, O6 X2 e, N& r) vAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
/ P/ m+ n7 \& o5 T4 F4 @& FTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction2 `4 X+ h! Q( I8 R+ @+ }( L* ^$ C: J o
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) e4 |( M8 L2 F' k& zBOSTON — 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.% H' |. d: k& k
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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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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“What we’ve seen is the meteoric rise of these prices as the professional class has moved into town,” said Steven Cohen, a Boston-based principal and broker at Keller Williams Realty International. “The Back Bay is almost on a par with Lower Manhattan and Switzerland.” o4 L k* ^$ m _( D3 `* B! B
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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. v2 A2 N+ P- C" E& j6 _1 Q
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.' f5 Y0 \3 n# k: S3 v+ H
9 d P+ c8 e6 J- X9 Q& n$ L" _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 $50,000.
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$ ?0 i) a7 Y2 r$ o8 yMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.- u4 c3 ?; u" u3 c( e3 g7 F, \
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Still, he said, in high-value markets, parking prices are driven by supply and demand and wealthy people will pay extraordinary prices for a nearby spot, for the convenience.7 c* w* O( r$ u
+ u; t) G7 [- q' y8 d2 D$ A“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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