New York buyers pay $200,000 for car space...WTF people.

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by S2007S, Sep 20, 2007.

  1. S2007S

    S2007S

    I think its time that people wake the F$%# up and realize whats going on. $200,000 for a car space.....



    New York buyers pay $200,000 for car space


    Transport: Julie Earle-Levine | September 15, 2007

    A PARKING garage is always a bonus when buying a city apartment, but in Manhattan, buyers can expect to compete for it.

    The average cost of a garage there is a whopping $US165,000 ($200,000) according to a report by Miller Samuel, a New York real estate appraisal firm.

    The report, studying Manhattan co-op and condominium parking spaces, found that many people are willing to pay even more.

    Eight people in downtown Chelsea were competing to buy one of five parking spaces for $US225,000, or $US1500 a square foot.

    Even in Brooklyn, prices are steep, at $US125,000 for one new development.

    Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of Miller Samuel, says parking in new developments -- there are a flood of new condos in the city -- is selling for twice what it was five years ago.

    He estimates fewer than 1 per cent of all co-op and condo buildings in the city have private garages.

    The city also limits how much parking new buildings below 60th Street can offer, requiring that no more than 20 per cent of the units have spaces.

    "Parking is a rare amenity in Manhattan and in the past five years, the value of that amenity has more closely tracked the overall value of housing," he says.

    Daily parking costs about $US40 in mid-town Manhattan.

    Getting a monthly spot in an often hard to reach location for $US200 is considered a bargain.

    Is there a market in buying parking garages? "Not really. You can usually only buy one if you live in the building," Miller says.

    "It just enhances the marketability of an apartment."

    It's no wonder parking spaces (competing for them and explosive street brawls over them) and parking garages (getting one on the "cheap" through a friend) are among the episodes on Seinfeld.

    For developers in New York, parking is the highest and best use for below grade space and earns about the same price per square foot as living space, which costs more to develop.

    So developers can now sell space that was essentially unusable as residential for the same price per square foot as apartments.

    According to Miller Samuel, the average parking space costs $US165,019 or $US1100/sqft, close to the average apartment price of $US1107/sqft.

    "Parking allows city dwellers to still have the suburban ideal where they can park their car and walk right into their homes, and this is the price people pay."

    Buyers and brokers believe prices will go even higher.

    Miller believes prices are now mirroring housing prices.

    "At least in the short term I do not think you will see them follow a different trend. They will be more in sync with housing."

    Forty parking garages or lots in the city have closed in the past nine months, while only 23 new ones have opened, according to an official parking garage guide to the city.
     
  2. ElCubano

    ElCubano

    my friend paid $10k for an extra space when purchasing his condo....it is now selling for $20k....not a bad investment
     
  3. S2007S

    S2007S


    about a year ago my friend was close to purchasing a space where he lived, they wanted 10k, I still think there going for the same price.
     
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  5. Might be a good investment. The owner might even rent it out and collect rental income.

    I vaguely remember reading in the newspaper about year 1985 that parking spaces in Manhattan were selling for approximately US $ 20,000 then.
     
  6. Nobody drives in New York anyway. There's too much traffic.
     
  7. Didn't Bernanke mention something about maintaining parking space values as one of the principal reasons for the 50 bp rate cut? Don't even toy with the notion of what might happen if those parking space prices went down! Those prices are good for everyone. It's for the greater good.
     
  8. TOM134

    TOM134

    S2007S,

    Well, it just goes to prove that some people are CRAZY !

    Don't they realize the value of $?

    Paying $150,000 + for a parking spot is laughable - poor suckers!

    How foolish!

    I wouldn't pay ten cents to park my car.

    Who in their right minds would live in that rat infested City anyway!

    But some people I guess like living their whole lives on top of other people. So be it.

    We only live once and to live in NY City is to live a sub-human life.

    I hope at least a few of them wake up before they are carried away for good.
     
  9. S2007S

    S2007S


    Yea, have to keep the value of the parking spaces up in nyc because if you dont its not NYC.
     
    #10     Sep 20, 2007