Property Priced In Gold

US Money Supply, Gold and House Prices

This chart compares the long-term trends in US money supply and average New York City property prices.

Raw figures

The raw figures behind the comparison

US money supply

Gold price in USD

New York City property price

Methodology

How the figures were prepared

US money supply

Federal Reserve M2 series M2SL, monthly and seasonally adjusted in billions of dollars. PPIG calculates each calendar-year value as the arithmetic mean of all 12 monthly observations.

Gold in dollars

Annual average USD gold prices are the same canonical values used by PPIG's New York City property series.

New York City property

Median recorded residential sale prices from NYC Department of Finance annualized property sales. This is a median, not an average.

Property priced in gold

New York City property price in gold ounces equals the median sale price divided by the annual average USD gold price per troy ounce.

Common coverage

All charts are restricted to the complete validated overlap from 2003 to 2024.

Interpretation

The dual-axis charts compare long-term shape across different units. They do not establish cause and effect or imply that the values are directly interchangeable.