This would really help, and a stop-gap solution would be to add a link to a good source of data for this in the help bubble.

What do you think about adding regional appreciation data?
And including it in the Housing Asset itself, for deterministic mode as well.

^ would be very useful. In many areas, a pure rental based real estate investment might not make sense if only looking at the income generating portion, but when including historical real estate appreciation, it starts to make a lot more sense.

Oops, I just submitted this as a suggestion and then saw this. The data is available at https://www.fhfa.gov/DataTools/Downloads. DM me for a spreadsheet of it already parsed into json as returns and standard deviation per state since 1990.

Not sure how home appreciation isn’t included as a significant piece of the overall financial planning process. Manual entry is fine imho as there are significant regional differences and or real time events that haven’t made it into the data.

Hi David, if you’re just trying to model home appreciation over time, note that you can already do that within the During Ownership section of the House form in the Plan interface (i.e. not the Current Finances page, but within a Plan).