It feels to me as if gold is cherry picked. Wouldn't the appropriate comparison be real estate (as a class) with precious metals or maybe even commodities (as

It feels to me as if gold is cherry picked. Wouldn't the appropriate comparison be real estate (as a class) with precious metals or maybe even commodities (as a class)? Otherwise I can easily state that, parts of NY and SF and London etc may have appreciated differently relative to each other, but a London home has appreciated very well across most time periods.