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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
0 V5 `/ N1 S0 Q& |( H/ @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。1 T' e6 E' J5 p
带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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8 A4 F% I4 @) T4 E8 c2 @5 A* C8 L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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) n$ V5 @/ V' Xhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]) R+ ^0 ~5 f6 o6 F! L1 p0 ]8 J4 M
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More
: F2 Z+ T4 k( s3 ^4 {' \5 T" jTwo Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction: D( b9 U4 X6 H3 p3 r
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1 d# y9 A0 v0 s# v; i5 tBOSTON — 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.9 C1 c! p; W/ V
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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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5 I H% t/ g( T% lBut 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 $560,000.
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The spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.
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* |: |$ G6 c! _( [" N5 ` O“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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6 U; p+ f1 x+ t- I2 q) }( P; y& Y) RThe 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.6 _# `: y0 G9 a+ s: z+ Z
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“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.; I7 I" J7 w' f* w" u4 Z- M& t+ b. G
, o8 N" ^8 f/ w% [/ PThe 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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1 d9 U0 Q, ^5 ~" y) I0 U6 g6 WMr. Cohen, the broker, said he would have expected the spaces to go for about $300,000 — not top dollar, because the first car has to be moved out to move the second.9 `! w! `& L( w8 m
( B' {" G7 ^0 [! \$ C$ OStill, 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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$ p7 q% r) W+ c" k0 J u$ z“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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