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BOSTON It s exclusive Boston real estate: two rare tandem parking spaces behind a building on Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay area. There s lined asphalt and an alley view, and it sold at auction for $560,000, according to CBS Boston. With too many cars and too few parking spaces in the wealthy Boston neighborhood, these spaces were highly coveted and the subject of a bidding war that started at $42,000. The spaces were sold at auction by the Internal Revenue
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