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On Thursday, the city bank of Buenos Aires, Banco Ciudad, which prides itself on being the country’s top bank in the auctions business, holds its third “super special” auction of the year - and is already bracing itself for a packed auditorium and telephone lines buzzing with bids, amid what it says is a “sustained growth in public interest in investing in art”.
In Argentina, where private estimates reckon inflation will end the year at 25 to 30 per cent (well above the discredited official data, which reports that prices have risen 6.7 per cent so far this year), buying art may be a new hedge.
It could also be a way for Argentines to maintain a sense of sophistication. Argentines gloried in their humble peso being equivalent to the mighty dollar during the 1990s - until the unsustainable currency peg spectacularly collapsed in 2001-02.
Whatever the reason, visitors to the auction section of Banco Ciudad’s website have doubled in the past month and there are 20 requests a day to receive auction catalogues online for bidders to browse the relative bargains on offer.
Reserve prices for Thursday’s auction of Argentine artists start as low as 1,500 pesos ($380) and the biggest ticket work is Vito Campanella’s oil on canvas, “La Payada” , which starts with what the bank calls the “very tempting” price tag of 15,000 pesos ($3,800).
The bank’s first two auctions this year raised more than 4.4m pesos ($1.1m) and artworks have gone under the hammer for more than 50 per cent more than their reserve prices.
This experience in Argentina illustrates a wider trend: the rise of art as a new emerging asset class. Forget bonds, stocks, forex or even copper and soya. Bric art is booming, as this article highlights.
Latin American art was the best performing regional art index in the past 25 years at the end of 2009, according to Beautiful Asset Advisors, whose founders Jianping Mei and Michael Moses track the performance of fine art sales against equity market returns via their MeiMoses fine art indices.
Latin American art’s performance has sloped off this year - the following graph shows how it lags the resurgence in demand for post-war and impressionist works - but it remains “very vibrant and viable, especially as wealth continues to accumulate”, according to Mr Moses.
Castlestone Management, a UK fund manager which last year launched the first retail art fund, offering institutional and individual investors the opportunity to diversify out of traditional asset classes, says that when the value of money falls, the value of art, like that of gold, rises.
As its CEO Angus Murray, puts it, art is “an irreplaceable, unleveraged real asset which responds well in a time when the possibility of inflation is on the horizon alongside the rapid decline of the real purchasing power of money.”
Soaring bid and sales volumes at New York and London auctions since late last year prove confidence in the art market is back. “People haven’t suddenly become cultured, it’s a hedge against inflation and shows art is becoming more and more a respected asset class,” says Constanze Kubern, Castlestone’s senior art adviser.
Though “blue chip” artists can prove costly investments - Pablo Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” sold for $106.5m in New York in May, setting a new world record - art gets good returns, as the following chart from Castlestone shows:
(click chart to enlarge)
And there is plenty of upside yet. Castlestone expects art prices to rise 40 per cent over the next couple of years as the market recovers from lows in 2009.
Emerging market and Latin American art was on the up before the 2009 economic downturn, and is now picking up steam again. Phillips de Pury, one of the other big auction house alongside Sotheby’s and Christie’s, held a Bric auction in London in April, and Latin American art was showcased in the Pinta art show in London in June, a expansion from Pinta’s roots in New York.
Bric and Latin art can be speculative and thus risky, and Castlestone doesn’t own any Latin American art yet - it focuses on the “golden middle” of post-war art where prices and returns are good. But Kubern said she had Colombian artist Fernando Botero on her shopping list.
So emerging market investors may want to grab their cheque books and rush to get seats at the October-November auction season in London and New York. And make sure they have enough cash left over for the ArtBasel fair in Miami Beach in December.
Related:
Nigeria’s art collectors: a nice new market, The Economist
The Rise of the Emerging Art Economy, Businessweek
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Don Frassinetti, el Hombre que no tuvo infancia. El Mayor coleccionista de Juguees Industra Nacional. Revista ventitres. 3/8/2006 Año 9 numero 421. Por Diego Rojas
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31/07/10 Si bien Buenos Aires es el principal destino de las inversiones, las constructoras tienen en la mira a Córdoba, Rosario y Mendoza.
PorAndrés Mazzeo, ESPECIAL PARA CLARIN
Atraídas por el buen momento que atraviesan algunas economías regionales, las desarrolladoras inmobiliarias pusieron el foco en varias provincias del interior del país. A la par que decae levemente el interés en la Capital Federal, gran parte de las inversiones en construcciones de alta gama previstas para este año estarán destinadas a Rosario, Córdoba y Mendoza, según indica un estudio realizado por la CEDU (Cámara Empresaria de Desarrolladores Urbanos), al que accedió iEco. El objetivo, dicen en el mercado, es capitalizar el ascenso del complejo sojero rosarino, el del sector automotriz cordobés y el boom de los vinos mendocinos.
De acuerdo con la CEDU, un 42% de las constructoras está desarrollando principalmente barrios privados, country clubs y condominios. Distintas fuentes interpretan que ese porcentaje, hoy, es tan alto porque fue favorecido por dos factores principales: la ausencia de crédito para la clase media y el aumento en el valor de las propiedades. De este modo, sólo los sectores de alto poder adquisitivo pueden volcar sus excedentes en el mercado inmobiliario.
Si bien la Capital Federal aún se mantiene como principal destino para invertir en ladrillos y construcciones premium (41%), el interior ya se posicionó como una buena alternativa. Danilo Antoniazzi, gerente institucional de la CEDU, dice: “No es un dato menor el crecimiento de la construcción en el interior con relación a la zona históricamente más elegida para invertir que es Buenos Aires, y que la diferencia sea sólo de 5 puntos”. Claudia Armesto, consultora de la Cámara, completa el cuadro desde el punto de vista de las constructoras: “La mano de obra más barata y un valor más bajo de los terrenos, que además gozan de buenas ubicaciones, son elementos que determinan una mayor rentabilidad en esas plazas”.
Del total de los nuevos emprendimientos, Córdoba capital concentra el 9%; Rosario, el 5%, y Mendoza, otro tanto. Pero por sí sola, la capital mediterránea y sus alrededores representó en marzo nada menos que el 26% de la superficie a edificar en todo el país. “Córdoba, en 2009, tuvo más metros cuadrados para construir que Buenos Aires, y viene teniendo una explosión de desarrollo muy grande”, resume Ariel Turkie, un alto ejecutivo de la desarrolladora TGLT.
Para este ejecutivo, la zona se destaca por la buena respuesta del agro postsequía, la recuperación de la actividad económica de los últimos años (particularmente la industria automotriz), más la explosión demográfica impulsada por las universidades, lo que “facilitó la canalización de parte de esos excedentes hacia la construcción residencial”.
Emprendimientos
Rosario, a su vez, también se posiciona como una de las ciudades más atractivas dentro del mercado de real estate argentino. Desde la desarrolladora TGLT, el arquitecto Francisco Jorge indica que ese distrito no estaba acostumbrado, como Buenos Aires, a generar grandes proyectos. “En un comienzo, se trataba de emprendimientos de un máximo de 4.000 m2. Hoy se habla de proyectos de 40.000 y hasta 60.000. De los 30 grandes proyectos que se estamos realizando, seis están en Rosario”.
Con las edificaciones de lujo que están proyectadas, algunos se ilusionan con la posibilidad de que Rosario tenga su propio Puerto Madero. El emblema de tal ilusión es el desarrollo de Puerto Norte, un desafío que contempla el reciclado de gran parte de silos y edificios del siglo XIX, más otros nuevos, que va transformando el antiguo puerto industrial en un barrio residencial, caracterizado por sus vistas al río y su cercanía al centro.
Según los especialistas, el boom rosarino se debe al sostenido crecimiento que viene registrando el complejo agroganadero regional en los últimos años. Esos “agrodólares” se vuelcan a la compra de construcciones premium, “un segmento que además tenía escasa oferta”, según resume la consultora Claudia Armesto.
Aporte estatal
En parte, las construcciones de lujo se expanden por impulso de la planificación estatal. En 2007, la Municipalidad rosarina creó un plan de desarrollo que permitió sentar las bases para un planeamiento a largo plazo. Desde TGLT, aseguran que este “master plan” fue el que permitió diseñar lo que hoy se denomina Forum Puerto Norte.
Pero hay otras áreas del país que atraen inversiones. En la Patagonia, por ejemplo, es el sector energético (sueldos altos más radicación de empresas extranjeras con sus ejecutivos) el que tracciona al mercado inmobiliario. “Vemos a la Patagonia con un altísimo potencial de desarrollo y hoy su crecimiento es exponencial debido al desarrollo energético”, indica Daniel Jesús Sáez, responsable de marketing de la desarrolladora ASPA.
“Neuquén es un lugar con un poder adquisitivo efectivo”, agrega Daniel Mintzer, socio director de la G&D Developers, otra de las constructoras muy activas en la región.
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