有時魚和熊掌是可以兼得的，去年鳳凰城漲了12%

都在講白菜房增值機會不好。可是去年全美房價漲的最好的是前幾年遍地白菜的鳳凰城，漲了12%，遠遠高於美國平均的0.2%，矽穀的 3.4%。不是所有的白菜都一樣的。因為房價一時distressed， 反彈是很有希望的。房價distressed，租金沒distressed,現金流就好，房價反彈，升值也好。有時魚和熊掌是可以兼得的。

Zillow: Phoenix home prices up 12% to lead nation

Phoenix Business Journal by Kristena Hansen, Reporter

Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 10:51am MST

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U.S. home values have posted their the first year-long gain since 2007, and the rapid rebound of the metro Phoenix housing market once again far outpaced anywhere else in the country, according to a new report released Tuesday by Zillow Inc.

Phoenix-area home prices surged 12.1 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period last year -- by far the biggest year-over-year leap of any of the 167 metropolitan areas covered by Zillow’s Real Estate Market Report.

Phoenix also saw the largest increase from the first quarter of 2012, posting a 6 percent gain in home values to an average $136,200 in the second quarter.

The Phoenix housing market was among 53, or nearly one-third, of the metro areas examined in the study that posted gains from a year earlier during the second quarter ended June 30.

Trailing behind Phoenix in second place was the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro area in Florida, which saw a 6.4 percent jump from the second quarter of last year to an average value of $148,300. Straggling behind in third, fourth and fifth places were Denver’s 3.5 percent gain to an average of $211,300; San Jose, Calif.’s 3.4 percent rise to an average of $566,400; and Pitt*****urgh’s 3.3 percent increase to an average of $108,700, the report said.

Nationwide, the Zillow Home Value Index rose 0.2 percent year-over-year to an average value of $149,300. It was the first time the country posted gains in four consecutive quarters since 2007, just before the housing bust.

“The housing recovery is holding together despite lower-than-expected job growth, indicating that it has some organic strength of its own. Looking forward, we expect home values to remain relatively flat as the market works through a backlog of foreclosures and high rates of negative equity,” said Stan Humphries, Zillow chief economist, in a prepared statement.

While Zillow analysts expect the boost to continue over the next year by 1.1 percent, they anticipate metro Phoenix will continue leading the nation with a 9.9 percent annual gain.