Currently, the median price for a new house in the US is about $345 800. In gold terms, it is around 275.23 oz of gold. Although, new house prices in dollars could still rise, it is likely to see a big drop in gold terms.
Below, is a long-term chart of new house prices in the US in terms of gold ounces (from fred.stlouisfed.org):
Around August/September 2007, price broke down at a crucial support level. The target for that move is around 46, and it has not yet been reached. It appears that we could soon see another move down towards that 46 oz of gold target.
It appears to be a rather good time to sell the house, and buy gold. If you sell now, and buy again when the median new house price is 46 oz of gold, you would have increased your current house worth, by a factor of 6 (275.23/46). However, you can even improve on that by buying silver.
Only if the ratio goes higher than the purple line, would it make the above pattern invalid. However, I think that would be very unlikely.
This does not constitute financial advice. Do your own due-diligence. I am just sharing my research.
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gold is way more secure.
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Good Point. I can just see explaining to my wife, honey we're selling the house, it looks really good on paper.......the next day she'll be handing me a different set of papers. Balls of steel on any that do it!!
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Make sure you have a place to live! Don't get me wrong I am a gold bug but I would never sell my house and put all the proceeds into gold. Maybe downsizing and using the money left over to buy gold yes.
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Good points. Renting is another option. Risk vs Reward has to be considered - different for everyone. With the downsizing option you could still make a decent return.
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Diversification is good....nothing is guaranteed with all of these alternatives. i like them all and time will tell.
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Yes, agreed. Selling the house actually gives you an option to diversify, especially with the downsizing option as @maneco64 said.
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Diversification is the key. I love real estate as an investment, gold and silver to back it up :)
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yes, but its divisibility is a problem, especially in the current economic environment.
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I see the point. I guess I just see real estate as an investment on the rental side of things. I can rent my home out, I can rent rooms out during hard economic times etc.
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