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4车库比3车库好，3车库比2车库好。
* w0 n7 f! K4 C7 D" J22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。
1 d- o- s* z5 ^1 M ]; b% Y带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。; v# R. T8 l3 n' b+ m3 @6 W P
: C @& P8 ]/ \+ s! f, _$ h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[]/ h- L" h+ E2 e5 r$ ^4 r
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Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction
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! b, x9 k/ a- }: qBOSTON — If you thought housing prices were spiraling up again, consider the lowly parking space.
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. G9 f9 R O' H. n( i: 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.
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9 R. b2 p3 R2 S/ U; QBut 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.* y# o7 E4 O; w' e4 Y7 F
$ r% k7 X& @# h; |- PThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.5 X+ R2 L$ l3 v
/ E2 ?6 k4 @* P7 R“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.) G7 \! f% Z! O$ ?
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.0 i& ~& [7 t4 P0 B
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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 $50,000.( ?7 X {& L$ |, p) u& [2 Y. }
]) Z! \ D$ o' xMr. 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.# j2 \$ O" o7 ^/ B O
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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.# y3 l/ { F5 C& \/ X
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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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发表于 2014-7-24 13:18
富人的行为我们穷人就不用去理解了，前段时间还看到个豪宅，只有2间卧室，却有6个卫生间。据说也是为了方便开party的客人