[GNC] How to Properly Record Valuation Changes in Home Value?

[David Warren]

I can see zero purpose in doing that but whatever works for you.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 5:04 PM Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:

> Create capitalization account and depreciate that  asset down to zero on
> day one.
>
> By the time I run it to ground, its value ends up being a monument in a
> junk yard.
>
> If it is  a collectable then a different story...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Warren <david at warren1.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2025 2:23 PM
> To: gnucash at kcburns.com
> Cc: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] How to Properly Record Valuation Changes in Home Value?
>
> So when you buy a car, you capitalize it on your balance sheet? (I do too,
> just curious what others do). Then I credit an auto asset account and debit
> auto expense year by year so I get a fair sense of what the car costs me
> annually.
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 12:32 PM <gnucash at kcburns.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:18:18 -0400
> > > From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>
> > > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > > Subject: Re: [GNC] How to Properly Record Valuation Changes in Home
> > >       Value?
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> > > On 9/16/2025 12:09 PM, gnucash at kcburns.com wrote:
> > >> I have been following this discussion with interest, and now have a
> > >> question:
> > >>
> > >> My Balance Sheet (report) shows an Unrealized Gains line near the
> > >> bottom, which is presumably my unrealized investment gains?? But, I
> > >> do not find that I have an account named named Unrealized Gains...
> > >> So, I wonder how this Unrealized Gains line works, and if I should
> > >> tap into that process when recording the Unrealized Gains on my home?
> > >> I would prefer to keep these Unrealized Gains lines (investments vs
> > >> home) separated, but have them appear one-after-the-other in the
> > >> Balance Sheet (report).
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Ken
> > >
> > > It's a matter of NAMING your account (for unrealized gains)
> > >
> > > But first an explanation of the "unrealized gains" (or losses) in
> > > the Ba;lance Sheet. With gnucash, we do not usually perform a "close
> > > the books" operation prior to running the Balance Sheet. So there is
> > > a net outstanding sum of all the accounts of types income and
> > > expense. These account types are actually of fundamental type
> > > Equity, so that net belongs under Equity on the Balance sheet. The
> > > name being used is Unrealized Gains (if credit) or Unrealized Losses
> > > (if debit)
> > >
> > > So ---- If you want explicit "Unrealized Gains" accounts you will
> > > have to create them with some different name <*> but note that you
> > > will want them under assets (or liabilities or equity) and NOT under
> > > types income or expense.
> > >
> > > Michael D Novack
> > >
> > > * They will be shoeing up where you put them.
> >
> >
> > Thanks Michael!
> >
> > I now have my unrealized gains/losses for my house (and my autos,
> > since I don't depreciate them for tax purposes) showing up as desired
> > in my Balance Sheet report (as Equity:Unrealized Gain - Home
> Appreciation).
> >
> > Further analyzing GnuCash's internal Unrealized Gains line in the
> > Balance Sheet report, I now see that it exactly matches the unrealized
> > gains shown in my Advanced Portfolio Report.
> >
> > So, I am now happy with my bookkeeping!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken
> >
> >
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