Average home sale price · 1914 Estimated
This figure may be significantly off. It is projected back 49 years from the first recorded price, using general inflation. Items do not track inflation evenly — groceries in particular were far more expensive relative to other goods before modern agriculture, so a figure this old can understate the real price by two-fold or more. Use it for a sense of scale, not as a historical price.
$6,285in June 1914 — about $212,016 in today's money.
- Price in 1914$6,285
- Same money today$212,016
- Actual price now · January 2026$514,600
- Change since 1914+8087%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1914. This figure is estimated: we took the earliest observed price (January 1963) and moved it back along the category inflation curve — a back-cast of 49 years. The further back it reaches, the less it should be trusted. Treat it as an approximation, not a historical fact.
- Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED. Public domain.
- Series
- ASPUS
- Estimated for
- June 1914
- Coverage
- January 1963 – January 2026
- Adjusted by
- CPIAUCNS · 9.9 → 333.952 (June 2026)
- Back-cast
- 49 years before the first record · very low confidence
- License
- Public domain