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2018考研英语双语阅读:160000美元只能买一个贮藏室?

2017-06-06 15:36:11来源:新东方在线

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  In San Francisco, $160,000 gets you a storage locker

  160000美元只能买一个贮藏室?

  导读:160000 美元,在美国能干什么?

  In Omaha, Nebraska, $160,000 snags you a 3-bedroom home, but in San Francisco, it simply gets you a storage locker.

  在内布拉斯加州的奥马哈,160,000美元将可以住上三居室,但在旧金山,您只能得到一个小仓库。

  Such was the case on May 20 when residents at the Lumina, a luxury condominium development in San Francisco’s trendy South of Market neighborhood, participated in an online bidding war over storage units up for auction. Perched two blocks from the Embarcadero waterfront in downtown San Francisco, the Lumina sports 655 condo units and amenities that include a swimming pool, gym with climbing wall, pet grooming stations, private movie theater, two-story club lounge, and over 100 storage lockers.

  就在5月20日这天,住在Lumina的居民参与了一场在线拍卖,这次拍卖的是贮藏室。Lumina是旧金山的市场街以南的一个豪华住宅小区。距离旧金山市中心的内河码头两个街区距离的Lumina有着655个公寓和各种设施,包括一个游泳池、带攀岩墙的健身房、宠物美容中心、私人电影院、两层俱乐部和超过100个贮藏室。

  Fifty-three storage units at the Lumina were auctioned off on May 20, ranging from 9 square feet to 90 square feet. The 9-square-foot lockers sold for between $4,300 and $5,100 each. However, the winning bid for the 90-square-foot locker fetched a whopping $160,000, or $1,777 per-square-foot. Put in context, that’s more expensive than the price per-square-foot of a $2.3 million 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo currently listed for sale in the development.

  Lumina五十三个贮藏室于五月二十日拍卖,大小从9平方英尺至90平方英尺不等。9平方英尺的贮藏室每个售价4300美元至5100美元。然而,90平方英尺的贮藏室中标价格高达16万美元,即每平方英尺1777美元。相比之下,这个价格比现在标价上写的每平方英尺230万美元的两卧还带有两个2卫生间的公寓的价格贵多了。

  But stratospheric pricing is par for the course in San Francisco, where luxury building add-ons can be almost as expensive as the condos or apartments themselves. And while San Francisco real estate market is particularly notorious, it’s not the only city where add-ons fetch seemingly outrageous prices. Case in point: a 36-square-foot storage unit in New York City sold for $75,000 in 2014.

  但在旧金山这个价格也是在意料之中的,在这里豪华的建筑所带的其他部分的地盘可能与建筑本身一样昂贵。虽然旧金山的房地产臭名昭着,但它并不是唯一一个像贮藏室这样的地盘都价格高的离谱的城市。比如,纽约市的一个36平方英尺的贮藏室在2014年曾以75000美元的价格卖出去过。

  “It sounds like a lot money, but that’s the economics that go through people’s minds,” explains Paul Hwang, principal at the San Francisco-based Skybox Realty.

  位于旧金山的Skybox Realty公司负责人Paul Hwang解释说:“这听起来要花很多钱,但这也是意料之内的。”

  “You have also have to remember that the guy spending $160,000 probably isn’t your average person. It is a lot money, but it’s not like he’s throwing his money away,” added Hwang, who also owns a unit at the Lumina. “He’d prefer to have his stuff in the building than at a storage locker a block away. He wants his golf clubs, his Christmas tree, or bike downstairs.”

  “你得意识到这个花16万美元买贮藏室的人可能不是普通人。这确实是很多钱,但并不是他把钱就随意扔掉了。”Paul Hwang在这里也有一个贮藏室,他补充说:“人们宁愿把他的东西放在这里,而不愿意放在一街区之外的地方。他想要这里高尔夫俱乐部、圣诞树、楼下的自行车。”

  Doug Bend, managing real estate broker for BLG Properties, lives in a one-bedroom unit in the Lumina with his family. He and his wife failed to secure a 47-square-foot storage unit with their $25,000 bid during the auction.

  管理BLG物业的房地产经纪人Doug Bend与他的家人住在Lumina的一间卧室。 他和他的妻子在拍卖会期间未能获得一个47平方英尺的贮藏室,这个贮藏室售价为25000美元。

  “We signed up for the storage locker auction because we just had a baby girl and could really use the space,” Bend explained. “Fortunately for the developer, but unfortunately for us, it has been the perfect high bidding storm of hundreds of owners bidding on a limited supply of lockers.”

  “我们报名了这次的贮藏室拍卖,因为我们只有一个小女儿,这个空间真的很实用。”Bend解释说。“对于开发商来说是好事,但对我们来说这就很不幸了。对于数百个的竞争这有限的空间的店主来说,这是一个超高风险的投标。”

  来源:雅虎新闻

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