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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
% U8 |7 [: s: o% r22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。
) v* [ \* a0 P+ z8 c带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。8 T2 [! @6 f: x
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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。" U6 {2 V2 |; v A+ U0 t
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[], Z1 ]9 r8 @* Z0 G8 o. C, U8 F
* h+ N' L5 c* r! q0 Q; X: GAnd With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More, a: p& H6 U6 b1 |+ H# X) F
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction5 Y7 \: E4 F, X0 `: G2 Y
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4 `+ @5 e; m* |5 p% m) OBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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; j9 G# y$ H8 B/ O: d3 Y6 OA 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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/ H! M8 ]: |5 f/ x8 K4 c: aJaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.: d; R7 J. E& d# G3 U' w6 _
% P7 T7 o1 e+ H9 E9 w7 U* @. R9 t$ }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 $560,000.# W) R& }; X h( ~- m% e$ Y% H
4 h/ |, C- R- x6 K+ O8 ]* @2 x U0 G) kThe 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.”
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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.7 @, a9 ?& G6 ^+ @) f1 D4 ^
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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2 T( o% e2 H- t) eThe 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 $50,000.% I( W4 {3 G* s) L' r7 o
) |2 g' G! R& k$ zMr. 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.7 P! D" l- L/ f& C. W
y6 W9 i' e+ i6 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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“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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