Taxi medallion sold for $600.000
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An old Pakistani driver who had been driving a cab in New York for the last 25 years sold his medallion Wednesday for a staggering $600,000 an all-time record for such a sale.
The medallion, which gives cab drivers the right to operate legally in the city, cost $30,000 when it was purchased in 1981. The new owner is a taxi fleet operator who already owns somewhere around 100 medallions.
Prices have been steadily rising in recent years, and at the last city-held auction, medallions fetched upwards of $500K. Experts feel that the city could bring values down to a more realistic level around $300,000 if they added 5000 new ones to the pool. Until that happens (if it happens at all), expect to see more astronomical sale values as medallions change hands. There’s a limited number of the things out there, and right now, the demand appears to be off the charts.
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