Luxury Goods and the UK Investor
Luxury goods are not a single asset class. Prestige watches, handbags, collector and classic cars, fine jewellery and rare antiques differ on every variable that decides an outcome — supply, transparency, liquidity and cost. This report separates them, using the HAGI collector car index, published luxury watch and resale market sizing, and UBS sector analysis.
It covers what trading in watches, prestige and performance cars, jewellery and rare antiques has actually delivered — including the honest 4.5% ten-year average return on the leading collector car index — why market growth is not the same as a return to owners, which categories have countable supply and real price data, where specification beats model, and what the friction costs do before you buy.