World’s Most Expensive Parking Spot ($300,000)
Housing prices may be down, but the cost of a coveted parking space is up. Way up. An unidentified buyer yesterday paid $300,000 for a private parking space in the Back Bay, making it the most expensive parking space in Boston, according to Listing Information Network, which tracks the city’s real estate market. Debra Sordillo, the Coldwell sales agent who brokered the deal, said several residents at 48 Commonwealth Ave. engaged in a bidding war for the space, driving the asking price of $250,000 up to the record-breaking $300,000. The winning bidder did not want to be identified, she said. The $300,000 parking space came with few amenities other than its location — it is outdoors and uncovered.
World’s Most Expensive Car ($12.15 million)
A 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa has set a new world record for the most expensive car ever sold at auction, costing the buyer 9.02 million euros ($12.15 million), according to RM Auctions, which organized the event. The price, which includes a 10 percent buyer’s premium on top of the “hammer price,” is nearly 2 million euros more than the previous record set at a similarauction at Ferrari’s headquarters a year ago, it said in a statement.
Ferrari built just 22 Scaglietti-designed Testa Rossas with the signature pontoon fenders between 1957 and 1958. It was a formidable racer – a 300 horsepower V12 and nimble handling will do that – and Testa Rossas won 10 of the 19 races they entered between 1958 and 1961.
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