A house is a consumer good, like a car or a TV. Now that we have Bitcoin as a perfect savings instrument, this will be re-realised and houses will lose their monetary premium.

Houses are only as expensive as they are because people bid them up to use them to hide from debasement. It is easier to make a dollar than a house, so houses appreciate.

It is easier to make a house than Bitcoin, so houses will depreciate priced in Bitcoin.

Houses will return to a price that reflects the cost of building it, plus a small margin of profit for those in the business of building them.

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Yes! Houses are absolutely consumables. It’s not that they appreciate. It’s that they depreciate the slowest relative to fiat (compared to other consumables).

Rough hierarchy of retail consumables’ ability to store value from most to least:

* Real estate

* Automobiles

* Large appliances

* Furniture

* Small appliances

* Home goods

* Clothing

* Non-perishable food

* Perishable food

The extra boost that the higher end items gets has to do with upkeep. The people living in the house pay to maintain the property. The people driving the cars pay to keep them running, etc.