Art & Luxury Assets Blog: Insights from the Market Expert

Reading time: approx. 7 minutes “Concierge for art collectors” is a phrase people search for when they have arrived at a certain point: the collection has grown beyond what one person can keep in their head, the paperwork lives in three places, the insurer wants an...

Reading time: approx. 9 minutes Anyone who wants to sell a collection or a single important work usually hears from an auction house first. That is understandable: auctions are visible, their results are published, and the major houses have specialists for almost...

Reading time: approx. 8 minutes Almost every sizeable estate contains something nobody can quite place: the paintings in the living room, the watch collection in the safe, the bronzes in the garden, the boxes of prints in the cellar. For the executor, the lawyer or...

Reading time: approx. 10 minutes Anyone who has built a collection of significant value and suddenly needs liquidity has three first impulses: sell the one work they no longer love anyway, take out a bank loan against other collateral, or reshuffle asset positions....

Reading time: approx. 10 minutes Anyone wanting to have a valuable watch or piece of jewellery valued finds almost only two offers online: marketplaces such as Chrono24 with their broad comparison databases, or dealers who buy watches and offer a valuation but have a...

Reading time: approx. 11 minutes Anyone who searches for “art as an investment” ends up either in a gallery marketing text celebrating the sensational auctions, or in a critical article that dismisses the whole thing as speculation. Both camps are partly right. What...

Reading time: approx. 10 minutes Anyone wanting to have an inherited collection, an inherited household or individual antiques valued seriously quickly encounters a confusing market. There are online platforms, auction houses, experts, antique dealers, art historians...

Reading time: approx. 7 minutes “Art advisory Zurich” is a surprisingly ambiguous search term. Some who type it are looking for an adviser. Others want to understand what an art advisory actually does when Zurich has enough galleries and auction houses. A third group...

Reading time: approx. 9 minutes At some point every collector faces the question of what a work on their wall is actually worth. Sometimes out of curiosity, more often for a concrete reason: an insurer wants figures, a work is to be sold, a collection has to be...

For many people, the term investment initially brings to mind rational, abstract transactions. These could be financial investments like stocks, gold, cryptocurrencies, or real estate that generate the highest possible returns and resale values. However, anyone who...