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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。8 \# J2 p$ B4 d3 c; ]3 L
22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。
3 P% i: [8 ^. w( ^带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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" e. R3 l3 l+ W, v& N( }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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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[] X( ^9 ]. r; [' i
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Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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" L: ]$ h2 n# s5 B8 uBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.8 D. k+ [0 [. G
; e( B/ ~" {3 WA 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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Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.) e5 z8 R2 {- T* D* H& F
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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.”8 E7 X d3 }5 _1 E R3 s: x
* y) q& K6 z4 qThe 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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1 e1 k" i( ?) R" O5 E9 e6 UThe 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 $50,000.' q/ F% k6 x) W9 z$ o+ L
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Mr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.
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2 f4 w, G$ m( {3 ] k- Y" KStill, 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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. `8 J. u8 P9 y: Y& y2 F6 F j, ]. U: J“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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