Appreciation is a rise of a currency in a floating exchange rate.

In times of high inflation, appreciation will be common to all balance sheet assets. Generally, the term is reserved for property or, more specifically, land and buildings. In any viable modern economy, such property tends to increase in value over the years - if only because of the scarcity of usable land forces its price in a competitive situationoun However, this belief has often caused speculative bubbles to arise.