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Bitcoin vs US Residential Real Estate — digital hard asset vs the country's largest asset class. Scale, return, and hedging framing.
| Metric | Bitcoin | US Residential Real Estate | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin Market Cap | $1.55T | — | — |
| Bitcoin Price | $77.42K | — | — |
| Bitcoin 24h Change | -0.91% | — | — |
| Bitcoin FDV | $1.55T | — | +0.0% |
| Bitcoin ATH | $126.08K | — | — |
Crypto data live from Sharpe's tracker cache; TradFi values are reference benchmarks updated quarterly.
US residential real estate total value sits at approximately $45-50T (Federal Reserve Flow of Funds estimate). Bitcoin's market cap ($1T-$2.5T) is 2-5% of US housing. The comparison frames BTC against the largest single asset class held by US households. Real estate returns average 4-6% annualized (price appreciation) plus ~2-3% rental yield, roughly 6-9% total returns. Bitcoin has annualized ~60% (noisy, cycle-dependent) since 2013. Real estate has scarcity at the land level but effectively unlimited supply at the housing-unit level (new construction). BTC has fixed 21M supply. Correlation is low (0.1-0.3) but both benefit from monetary debasement narratives. For allocators, BTC is emerging as a portable alternative to real-estate-as-wealth-storage for mobile high-net-worth populations.
Side-by-side crypto comparison with normalized returns
Rolling correlation between crypto and major TradFi benchmarks