House Prices in Gold
The median new U.S. home priced in ounces of gold, rather than in dollars.
Median new home sale price
+1,590.1%
U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Gold
+12,323.7%
World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet)
One median new home sale price, priced in gold
87.0
was 639 in January 1971
Logarithmic scale — each gridline is ten times the one below. These series span more than two orders of magnitude, which a linear axis would flatten into a single line.
The comparison begins in January 1963 because that is the first period in which both series exist. Values before then are not estimated. One median new home sale price bought $639 of gold at the start of this period and $86.99 at the end.