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4车库比3车库好,3车库比2车库好。
, |$ m1 y4 j) Y" r7 x) i22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。
) b9 O" l( J7 o! N( L带屋顶的车库比露天车位好。
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1 |0 k7 P" g ^9 E+ o. V* U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。1 b4 f5 x2 _ D1 u
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/1 ... auction.html?_r=0#h[]6 D: {' l# S# M
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And With a Roof, They’d Cost Even More2 |* l. k" B3 }9 a9 I2 R
Two Boston Parking Spots Sell for $560,000 at Auction) i7 I, }, P) x
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: j/ T: U& n& NBOSTON — 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.
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" ^0 \" C& x9 \Jaws dropped in 2009 when someone paid $300,000 for a parking space, which was thought to be a record.5 `% W" Q9 V [' J
F8 Z$ F7 ~8 ^+ PBut 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 $560,000.
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0 R+ z ]; U0 x7 U$ tThe spaces are behind 298 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, one of the costliest neighborhoods in the city.# ~2 }* D4 h/ Q$ o5 A" {( R# T
) L7 i0 m1 t: E; j" @, `“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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, j, C2 |3 C# c. c: @) D5 Y( BThe 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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" k' c) P6 Q" N1 z; Y5 v“It was a little more heated than I thought it would have been,” she said.
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4 u b+ n( Q7 x8 O7 b$ Q/ O3 nThe 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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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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1 O8 @% k' G0 a. d1 Q3 m3 |9 rStill, 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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3 O4 F) @+ g% L9 m4 M; s“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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