Higher resale returns in Hong Kong this SpringThe Spring 2025 Hong Kong Marquee Evening sales saw 35 repeat auction lots return to market, generating a combined hammer total of $54.1 million. Average annual returns (CAGR) across the 30 identifiable repeat sales was 6.5%, with holding periods between

Longer holding periods yield healthy returns despite an uncertain marketThe May 2025 New York Marquee Evening sales saw 98 repeat auction lots return to market, generating a combined hammer total of $353.1 million. Longer holding periods (above 10 years) continued to significantly outperform shorter

Repeat Sales Show Strength in LondonThe London Marquee Evening sales in March 2025 at Christie’s. Sotheby’s and Phillips saw 50 lots returning to the auction market (compared to 70 lots in March 2024), with a combined hammer value of $83.7 million. Repeat sales accounted for 38.4% of the total eveni

Short-term speculators suffer losses on their investmentsThe Hong Kong Marquee Evening Sales in Autumn 2024 saw 36 lots return to the auction market, with 22 selling at a profit, 9 at a loss, and 5 failing to find buyers. The lingering effects of the market frenzy in 2021 and 2022 were evident, as s

Robust Resale Performance in New York AuctionsThe New York Marquee Evening sales in November 2023 saw 69 lots returning to the auction market (compared to 81 lots in November 2023) with a combined premium value of $291.2 million (compared to $439.3 million in November 2023). The total sales of these

In this week's episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green dives into the latest trends shaping the art market with Michael Moses, co-founder of Art Market Consultancy and a pioneer in compiling repeat sales auction data. Michael shares key insights from the first half of 2024, including facto