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Keeping Current Matters • June 23, 2022

Home Price Appreciation vs Inflation Rate

by Julie Summers Christensen

The graph below shows how the average home price appreciation outperformed the average inflation rate in most decades going all the way back to the seventies – making homeownership a historically strong hedge against inflation (see graph below):

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